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Summary: A great novel, Ludlum keeps you guessing to the last page.
Review: This book is just what the title suggest. You think you know who the players are until Ludlum turns logic on its head. This was the first Ludlum novel that I have read. After finishing The Prometheus Deception, I cannot wait for his next work.
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Summary: Truly entertaining
Review: Ludlum at his best for some years. Beats all the opposition by a country mile. We Brits can hold up very few writers of the caliber of Ludlum, indeed the only one I've read recently is Englishman, John Templeton Smith. Like Ludlum he has been around forever. Some writers it seems mature and improve with age.
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Summary: another good one
Review: Having read most of Mr.Ludlum's books I again have found this as good or better than any of his others. He is a thinking mans Ian Fleming. Sometimes his story line gets a little far fetched but what do we read fiction for?. Have not read The Road To Omaha so that will be next.
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Summary: Pointless
Review: While I enjoyed some of his earlier books, this one was a disappointment. Every conspiracy has to have some unrealistic elements in it--after all you read it for the thrill. But Prometheus has too many of them. A shallow plot, an unbelievable character and a totally poitless conspiracy.
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Summary: What a dud.
Review: I can't *believe* all the positive professional reviews of this book -- unless they have all been written by slave-pawns of the international conspiracy Ludlum exposes.Omniscient or not, the hero was pretty good to figure out in the midst of hand-to-hand combat (p. 393): "With a shrill scream, the harridan crouched and then sprang forward, her face contorted, her hands extended like claws, like deadly instruments. ... She pulled out a flashing blade, a long thin stiletto. It gleamed wetly, as if coated with a viscous fluid. He knew at once that the blade must be coated with the alkaloid toxiferene, which made it an extremely dangerous weapon. The slightest nick or scrape would lead to immediate paralysis and a suffocating death."
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Summary: The "Spider-Writer" does it again!
Review: I do agree with some of the prior comments questioning the validity of factual situations that arise...as an example, I am still trying to figure out where the bolt cutter came from on page 101 allowing entry into the arm crates. With that aside however, the only real disappointment I personally had was with the length the book took to actually evolve into Mr.Ludlum's famous "spider web" (approx 170 pages). After that, this book is true Ludlum.....entwining, engrossing, ENJOYABLE!! I only wish that we "Ludlumites" did not have to wait so long for his books. Mr.Ludlum is and remains the master storyteller.....and yes, Mr.Manning does bear a "faint" resemblance to Mr.Gates, doesn't he? I would strongly urge any reader who is not familiar with Mr.Ludlum's work to read this....even though this may not be his best ever, I assure you that you will be buying another of his books very soon.....as I definately will; but I am going to have to wait for his next, as all of his prior books sit on my shelves.
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Summary: A true winner
Review: This is the first book I have read in his collection. I couldn't put the book down at times. I thought it was one of the best books that I have ever read. The book had so many twist and turns at times I had no idea what was going on. If you want a suspence thriller that will keep you guessing I high recommend this book, you won't be disappointed!
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Summary: Falling Apart Physically and Structurally
Review: Am I the only one who bought the hard cover only to have it fall apart within days? A friend of mine from New York had a copy and his pages were falling out all over the place as well. Did St. Martin's Press go low bid on the binding of this book, or what? I love Ludlum and wanted to really love this book. I did and I didn't end up loving it. What makes it tough for me is the climax where the main character is locked in a do or die struggle and his wife/ex-wife shoots the villain with a mystery gun which supposedly the main character gave her. Page 502 "Elena was holding the pistol he had given her..." Impossible! #1 I read back in the book and found that before the main character's assualt on the Prometheus "Party" he bought only one, I repeat one gun which he fired all his rounds from before tangling with the bad guy. His wife never had a gun. How can Ludlum say she used the gun Nick Bryson gave her, when Nick never gave her one? Plus, she had been taken prisoner by Prometheus guards and are you telling us they didn't pat her down the same way they did Nick Bryson when they found his gun, which he lated retrieved? #2 How is it that everyone in the Prometheus Dining/Party room die because they are trapped in by malfunctioning doors, but the Richard Lancaster character placed in the room by Ludlum on page 487, magically makes it out alive? Huh? Greg Manning was already out and so was Waller, so those make sense, but Lancaster was an oversight and a dissapointing one at that. These items make the ending and thus the entire book a dissapointment from an otherwise fabulous, fabulous author.
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Summary: Can't Do it Every Time
Review: A good author is not always successful in delivering a good book. We, as readers, need to be more circumspect about assuming a good author always provides us with a good read.that is why reding reviews is. I presume, a good thing to do before buying a book. This book is predicated upon a ridiculous premise and is filled with events that just don't sell. You want to read Ludlum, but you don't want to read this Ludlum. It is just not realistic and although many such fiction novels are unrealistic this one is so far off the mark so as to come across as a cartoon. Skip it.
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Summary: A complete loser of a book
Review: This book is a complete waste of your time. Worse than that. I was looking for a new author to discover and enjoy, and a thriller, and the critics' reviews of this tempted me. I enjoyed the first 20 pages or so, and then the book really started to go downhill. Clichés are a given of the genre, but the author takes this ad nauseum. Plots within plots within plots are only tolerable when you care about the characters. You can't in this book because they are so shallow that to call them two-dimensional would be an insult to B-movie plots. I started to think that going blind might be preferable to finishing this......save your money, don't buy it. Save your time, life is too short, don't read it.
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