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Summary: Fabulous, Exciting, and Suspenseful
Review: This book is comparable to DeMille's The Charm School, Plum Island, and The Gold Coast, which are his best. This novel kept me turning the pages and guessing who the antagonist and protagonist were. There were at least a half dozen super suspenseful scenes that I couldn't read fast enough.
I would recommend this book to any DeMille fan. It won't disappoint you.
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Summary: tedious
Review: this book was utterly tedious, ridiculous with caricatures as characters. i too, wish i hadnt purchased this book, but borrowed from my library.i dont want to believe that this is the same person who wrote the generals daughter or the prescient, the lions game.please say it aint so....
Rating: 
Summary: good book
Review: this book was very good i feel that it is kind of a copy of the charm school but its is still a good book it was the first nelson demille book i read but i don't feel bad about reading others
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Summary: Gives a New Meaning to "Cold War"
Review: This fabulous journey into the world of espionage is absolutely De Mille at his best. I felt as if I were skulking along with Abrams, O'Brien and "the Company" which is a testimony to De Mille's craft. What an imagination! Fabulous! Put the time aside, because it is difficult to put down!
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Summary: Best Book of the Best Modern Author
Review: This is on my top 5 list of all time...while I do concede that it is less deep and profound than Demille's other works, it far surpasses them all in terms of the pure storytelling virtues -- complexity, pacing, and unpredictability. Not to mention the numerous and creative action scenes and the deep and shifty intrigue. And his writing is just as top as in his other, more well known works.
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Summary: Another Great Read! The Russian Threat!
Review: This story about the Russian plot to knock out all electronic
communications in the US and thereby take over with their own President
makes another unique story and realistic reading. DeMille continues to
provide great dialog, emotionally interesting characters and suspense
throughout the book. Can't put the book down. The reappearance of one
of the main characters after a so-called parachuting accident is a
good twist. Also the flashbacks and the reappearance of intelligence
officers after 30 years is a good plot line. Which of them are the bad
guys is not answered until the very end with some great surprises!
is impressive throughout the book.
I wish Nelson Demille could write as fast as I can read.
He is among the FEW authors whose books I keep to read
again later.
My second read will be right before the movie comes out.
Enjoy this book!
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Summary: Excellent spy thriller, lots of action
Review: This was the most far out plot in any of the DeMille books and like a couple of others, it had a lot of characters and a lot of action. That can be a good thing, but it can also be a bit distracting, I enjoy DeMilles later works that have a single protagonist and follow that characters POV most of the way a bit more than I like this format.
This isn't the type of book to read a bit then go back to, it's the type of book that's best read straight through in a single weekend or vacation or similar time to get absorbed simply because it's easy to get lost on who is who and what's going on.
I think this is the last of DeMille's books for me, I'll have to wait until the next one comes out or go back and reread Gold Coast. He's a very good author and this book is no exception. I believe another movie is on the way, Up Country, featuring the same character that was the protagonist in The Generals Daughter. I hope it's done well.
If you haven't read DeMille yet, this is a good place to start as any if you like action, intrigue spy thrillers, if you want more of a serious single POV plot, try Gold Coast or Word of Honor, both novels that are among the best I've ever read.
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Summary: Total waste of paper
Review: Well, sorry there are no negative rating options. A minus fifteen would have been appropriate for this one...I grabbed this one off the shelf because I sort of like this genre and his Charm School was not too bad, except that even that one was eventually spoiled by few way-below-the-belt remarks. So, after being engrossed in a most ludicrous plot, of what is actually supposed to be a novel, for most of the space between bookcovers I threw the waste of paper straight into trash 50 pages bofore the grand finale. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW HOW IT ENDED!!
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