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Summary: Great book
Review: This was my second Allan Folsom novel and I couldn't put this one down too. The first I read, The Day after Tomorrow was fast paced and exciting throughout. This was just as fast and just as suspenceful. If you need to know what is going to happen on the next page, than this author is your man. He keeps you hanging each page and ultimately sums it all up neatly at the end.
I highly recommend Allan Folsom for a quick and exciting ride.
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Summary: Priests, midgets, global corruption - all here!
Review: I can't believe this book isn't "hot", or if it is, I certainly didn't know about it. I didn't even realize it was written by one of the authors of Day After Tomorrow.
It has all the classic elements, with fresh textures, of a solid action thriller. Kind of a Bourne Identity meets Man in the Iron Mask, it unappologetically makes the upper management at the Vatican the bad guys who are chasing around the unsuspecting estranged brother of a murdered priest.
The cat-and-mouse of the bad guys closing in on the good guys is what motivates the story, but there are enough peripheral characters that are well-developed enough to flesh out the protagonist's universe.
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Summary: Vatican as generic corporate villain
Review: Day of Confession is a reasonably diverting pot boiler. The main characters are reasonably well drawn and the plot moves at a good pace. Where Fulsom fails to execute is in his use of the Catholic Church and its environs. In Fulsom's story, nearly any multinational corporation seeking to extend its influence could substitute for the Church. Other than the megolomaniacal delusions of the chief villain, which have nothing to do with the Faith, there are no Ecclesiastic motivations. This is a tremendous missed opportunity and would have made the novel much more interesting. As it is, Day of Confession will make a long flight pass a bit more quickly, but that's about it.
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Summary: Yawn
Review: After the good reviews that I read I was looking for a whole lot more. I struggled, more often than not, to get to the non-conclusion of this rather contrived piece. The sex espisodes seemed purely gratuitous, poorly drawn, and made little or no contribution to a story line that was haphazard at best.
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Summary: Excellent and fast-paced thriller
Review: I originally bought this book out of nostalgia, because the story took place in places that I had visited in Italy. I really wasn't expecting much of a cohesive plot; just amusement. I was quite mistaken and got more than I bargained for. The references to the cities and areas I am familiar with were accurate, but the story line was so engrossing that I lost sleep a couple of evenings when I stayed up too late in order to keep reading to see what happens next. This is a "dark novel." Some aspects of the storyline strained believability. Some scenes were frightening. Some were disturbing. But the author keeps the reader involved.
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