The Road to Armageddon

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Summary: Great Book, very enjoyable.
Review: I found this book on my sisters book shelf and took it with me on a road trip. There were a few spelling mistakes but the writing way made up for it. Most books have them anyways. The story moved fast and it was really interesting. For sure I reccomend this book. The cover desing is really very nice too.

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Summary: Great story - incredibly bad editing
Review: I had a great deal of trouble getting through this book. The story is absorbing, the writing is vivid --- but the editing, to say the least, leaves something to be desired for a trade hardback. In the first 18 pages, I found ten serious editorial errors, including left-out apostrophes ("the Mullahs men") and hyphens ("off white", "five day"), misspelled names ("Addidas", "Dusseldorf"), misinflections (an image of an eagle "rung" with a circular band), and, unbelievably, an incorrect conversion from kilometers to miles. Such errors continue through the book. One cannot comfortably move with the flow of an author's prose when one's sensibilities are being continually assaulted by such barbarisms.

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Summary: Had To Give Up On It!
Review: I have been a big fan of Larry Collins' books over the years and started off very engrossed in his latest, The Road To Armageddon, as well. However, the extreme amount of detail Collins offers on everything from money laundering to obtaining materials for use in developing nuclear devices made me feel I was reading a "How To" primer rather than a thriller. As a result, after forcing myself to read about half of the book, I had to give up. Life is too short and there are too many books to read to make me try to finish this book. I wouldn't be surpised that if I was able to finish the book, it would have been a good read. Most of Collins' books are. But, I guess, the ability to work your way through the overwhelming amount of detail requires much more willpower than I have. I can't say that The Road To Armageddon is a bad book, since I wasn't able to finish it. The purpose of my review is to alert you to what you are in for should you attempt to read The Road To Armageddon. Caveat emptor!

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Summary: wordy, lenghthy, 1-dimensional & self-justified.
Review: i was lured to get this book simply based upon two reasons: 1) larry collins' the 5th horseman & is paris burning? were two great books high on my list, 2) other viewers' great ratings. but after i've tried several times to re-jump start to reread from those last pages i've dropped or given up, i've found myself impossible to continue to finish this one. so boring, so one-dimensional, so tastelessly written with cardboard-like characters, so formatted and contrite cliched plot, and, i just hate to read the words 'weapon of mass destruction' again and again. why not just use nuke, nuclear bomb? and you are not supposedly to understand those old jargons that they mean mass destruction? do we really have to change 'barbershop' into 'hair stylist saloon'? they are actually the same: cutting your hairs for a price if you don't want to cut it yourself. now, we are trying very hard bashing iran after we destroyed iraq, after bashing china, india, pakistan, libya...what and who else on our shortlist? north korea! i believed that i've already seen some of the opportunist novelists have already cooked up some thrillers with some patriotic spies and under-cover agents to infiltrate into north korea (as the lastest lousy video-game-like 007 movie) to do some real damages to pave the warpath of liberating that dirt poor country run by a stubborn and stupid sob. the other thought came into my mind when i tried continuely to re-read this book again and again was: every country got its own patriotism. when two different patriotisms clash, you simply cannot blame other coutry's patriotism and insist they are wrong. every countrmen like iranians, iraqians, chinese, koreans....and so on, got their own patriotisms to protect their own countries and to fight other patriotic invaders. patriots from two different countries killing each other with their own patriotism simply cannot justify the righteousness of the winning side. give me a break, larry, and no cigar for you this time.

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Summary: Crazy eye opening story!!!
Review: I'm not usually into this sort of thing but my friend reccomended that I read it. By the time I had finished all 300 and some pages I had a totally different outlook on life. It's like a fact based fiction story that really makes you question what our world is coming to. Exporting opium, the Russian army, I mean this story is way intense and I reccomend it to anyone and everyone!1!!!

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Summary: A book which both entertains and educates you.
Review: This book is a thriller which describes how money received from trafficking heroin could be used by terrorists to aquire weapons to carry out attacks. the author spends a lot of time describing the various tactics used by the terrorists and the police to outwit each other.Actually this part of the book is the only minor flaw as the story gets a bit bogged down in the middle as the authour describes in great detail how the heroin trade works in the Middle East.The last third of this book is very exiting.Overall the book is both exiting and informative.

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Summary: A very timely, exciting story
Review: This may be a fictional story, but it could very easily become reality. After reading it, you can see that all of the events could be in tomorrow's headlines. It is a great story that moves along quickly and is easy to read. The characters are not really well developed but this is a plot oriented story. It is quite scary and Mr. Collins seems to have a lot of factual knowledge to support this storyline. My only complaint is the romantic byline in the second half of the book. Although not much time was devoted to it, it is the one unbelievable event in the book. Otherwise I highly recommend it. It is a story that will scare you and keep you reading late into the night.

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Summary: Pretty good Forsythe-type thriller
Review: This was a pretty good thriller but I have to agree with another reviewer who was put off by the typos. This publisher desperately needs a proofreader. For example, on one page Charlie Wilson's name is spelled correctly but on the next it's spelled "Charley Wilson". There are numerous other examples and I have to admit they were distracting. I kept thinking why this author needed to be published by such a incompetent company.

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Summary: Pretty good Forsythe-type thriller
Review: This was a pretty good thriller but I have to agree with another reviewer who was put off by the typos. This publisher desperately needs a proofreader. For example, on one page Charlie Wilson's name is spelled correctly but on the next it's spelled "Charley Wilson". There are numerous other examples and I have to admit they were distracting. I kept thinking why this author needed to be published by such a incompetent company.

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Summary: Crazy eye opening story!!!
Review: When I picked up this book in the book store I was hooked right from the start. Larry Collins, also the author of O Jeruselum (Another must have!) wrote this as a work of fiction but it embraces particles of truth which keep you questioning the entire plot. When I got home, I spent the duration of the night sitting at my desk and literally at the edge of my chair until I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. I totally reccomend this book to anyone looking for a nonfiction thriller walking hand-in-hand with fact, and anyone interested in a great read!!!!!