The Eighth Day of the Week

Rating:
Summary: This Bomb was a Dud
Review: Coppel's attempt to develop some suspense around the ticking of the Russian bomb planted in Canada fell short of the explosion that was planned. Very few of the book's characters (with the exception of the leading man and woman John Morgan and Anna Neville) had any depth or created any connection with the reader. The majority of the plot was predictable, and the wordy descriptions of unrelated events and happenings only dragged out the process of getting to the end. On top of clumsy dialogue and unneccessary quotations starting each chapter, Coppel has written a very uninteresting post-Cold War US/Russia thriller. The only thrill I had was finishing it.

Rating:
Summary: This Bomb was a Dud
Review: Coppel's attempt to develop some suspense around the ticking of the Russian bomb planted in Canada fell short of the explosion that was planned. Very few of the book's characters (with the exception of the leading man and woman John Morgan and Anna Neville) had any depth or created any connection with the reader. The majority of the plot was predictable, and the wordy descriptions of unrelated events and happenings only dragged out the process of getting to the end. On top of clumsy dialogue and unneccessary quotations starting each chapter, Coppel has written a very uninteresting post-Cold War US/Russia thriller. The only thrill I had was finishing it.