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Summary: This thriller takes readers to the maximum
Review: The US Government has sanctioned Dr. Norman Zales to conduct mental health experiments that would convert individuals with multiple personality disorder into secret agents. Project Chameleon's objective is to train the participants into being "Mosaics" so that they can control the switching of personalities as the situation demands. The military becomes concerned with the experiment and assigns their top undercover agent, Major Roger Grayson to investigate the Belfair complex. Roger soon believes that the project is amoral and should be closed down as it hurts the guinea pigs. At the same time, Roger falls in love with a natural Mosaic, Susannah Card. As remarkable as a person as Susannah is, it will take every bit of skill, experience, and luck for Roger to keep her from being mentally sucked dry in the name of security and science. One of the clearest adages of fiction is that if John R. Maxim is the author, the novel is great. Like the tremendous HAVEN and THE SHADOW BOX, MOSAIC is a fantastic thriller that will elate fans of government conspiracy tales. The story line is filled with high levels of tension that is offset with much humor and compassion, especially the love triangle between him, her, and her other her. The characters, even those with multiple personalities, seem genuine and well developed. Mr. Maxim has written another winner. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Familiar but great
Review: As usual Maxim kept me up reading all night but i seemed to remember abel baker charley too good and the book was almost a remake of the chimera experiment conducted in A.B.C.
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Summary: READ MOSAIC AND ENJOY!
Review: As usual, John R. Maxim delivers again with Mosaic! I take issue with a reviewer who claims this book is riddled with inaccuracies concerning MPD. To get information on ANY subject, I read non-fiction, not fiction. I read fiction for just what John R. Maxim delivers every time - FUN - suspense - escape. He can be relied upon to take me away from the office and home for the time it takes to read his books, and I treasure every minute. He is an amazing writer and it excites and thrills me to begin each of his novels. I loved Mosaic and suggest you read the review from Massachusetts May 26, 1999 because, if I could write that good its what I would say.
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Summary: Please don't bother wasting your time...
Review: I had never read any of Maxim's work before, and this book introduced me to an author who really didn't take the time to research his material or think up a coherent plot and storyline. The characters are never developed sufficiently, the evil conspiracy behind the action is never explained, and the 'thrilling climax' involves the hero blacking out and doing nothing (sorry for the spoiler). I was thoroughly disappointed in this book. The beginning was moderately interesting, but the ending was a total letdown. Please don't bother.
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Summary: Author Trys The Impossible And Screws It Up
Review: I like most of John R Maxim's books (see my other reviews) but he has tried to do the impossible here. He's tried to write a book about the government wanting to use Multiple Personality Syndrome as a weapon. We not only get a lot of useless dialogue in this book, we also get it between the various characters that inhabit the same body. As if it isn't enough for the reader to try and keep the "real" characters straight...try keeping the characters within the characters straight as they interact with other characters within characters. Am I confusing you? You betcha! And this novel will do the same. I dislike stories that take place in asylums, as much of this novel does. There was no one to admire or identify with unless you have a yen to be a nut. Read one of Maxim's other books; this one was a bad idea poorly executed.
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Summary: It was OK
Review: I thought the audiobook version was OK. I did like the story and found the whole concept of MPS fascinating. My issue was that I could not connect with the main character as I have with so many other stories. The author moves you from character to character like a sitcom and you never really establish the connection. It is still worth a listen. This story is just not a page turner.
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Summary: I seem to have upset Dr. Barach
Review: I won't trouble to rebut his comments point by point. That's been done more than adequately by serious mental health professionals who are sickened by the arrogant excesses of too many psychiatrists. They can't admit that they've been wrong about MPD and Recovered Memory because that would, and should, leave them open to lawsuits over the lives they've left in ruins. Bear in mind; these are the folks that gave us frontal lobotomies before that practice was mercifully outlawed.
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Summary: Pure Maxim, great read!
Review: Like Haven and The Shadowbox, Maxim starts the action fast and increases it with every chapter. Starting with a fascinating and unusual premise, an experiment with Multiple Personality Disorders by the government, Maxim builds the suspense and adds thrills at every turn. Only the last couple of chapters disappoint, as the whole plot line is concluded rather abruptly. Maxim's writing is always rather minimalist, but this ending was too rushed. All in all a very, very entertaining read, and you may learn a thing or two in the bargain. Maxim has established himself as a premier thriller author. http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/tiannei/
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Summary: unbelievable plot, poorly researched
Review: Mr. Maxim's book reads as if all of his research on MPD were done in the newsletters of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. He goes on and on decrying "recovered memory therapy," with no awareness that there is published research supporting the idea that MPD is related to a history of child abuse (not *therapist* abuse). His shoddy research is also evident in the numerous howlers the book displays concerning various medications (e.g., early on he states that taking dopamine increases the level of serotonin in the brain--actually, dopamine is a neurotransmitter IN the brain, like serotonin; it's not a medication). It's unfortunate that this book might give lay readers what looks like good information on MPD, when it is in fact riddled with inaccuracies and one-sided views. The book also seems to be one more portrayal of individuals with mental disorders as violent and deranged killers (actually, most people with MPD are not violent or dangerous). As a novel, the book has an unbelievable plot, unbelievable characters, and leaden dialogue.
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Summary: Slow and Confusing
Review: The 1st Maxim book (Haven) that I read was 1st class. Unfortunately, Maxim was a complete waste of my time. Slow, boring, confusing and unbelievable A big disappointment
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