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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: What a story! Nat Hennessey and Cush Walker are the two main characters in this un-putdown-able crime/murder/love story, who really don't like each other much at all - they are fighting over the same woman who is in a coma.The story is brilliant - so many twists & turns that I never ever saw coming. This has got to be one of the best novels I have read..the only negative aspect - it is a bit long & because all the characters are interwoven within in each other, it gets a bit confusing but definately keep reading...it is well worth the ending! I can't wait to read another Stanley Pottinger book, these are the sort of books I love - not just a boring whodunit, or why they did it or even a boring romance..it has everything a good book should & heaps more! If only there were more like this...
Rating: 
Summary: This is a strange book
Review: When Pottinger twice in the matter of a few pages says that a person has lowered her eyelids to half-mast, I could tell that this book was in trouble. As I moved further and further in, things only got worse. Having enjoyed The Fourth Procedure, I picked up this book with anticipation, but Pottinger is apparently suffering from a sophomore jinx. This book, while it has some moments, has a considerable number of problems. Perhaps the most serious problem is the lack of focus. Even now, I am uncertain what the main idea behind the story is. It may be a suspense novel about the hunt for a killer; it may be a tale of race relations; it may be a mystery about an incident that occurred seventy years earlier; or it may be a science fiction story about radical brain surgery and a method to detect and remove racial prejudice. Done properly, these threads could be sewn together into a nice blanket, but this winds up being just a frayed rag. After what is supposedly the main plot is resolved, the story drags on for another fifty or so pages, solving the seventy-year old mystery in excessive detail; since this mystery means so little to the story, this winds up being a big waste of time. The villain is boring, the main characters are not very likeable, and, for a story dealing with prejudice, Pottinger indulges in a few stereotypes of his own. If you enjoyed Pottinger's previous work, approach this novel with great caution. If you have never read anything by him, this is not the place to start.
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