Countdown to Atlanta

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Summary: Great book!
Review: Countdown to Atlanta was an awesome read. Obviously a young writer, but the plot was well conceived and the research was splendid. I hope to see more from John Randall Brown in the future.

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Summary: If you love a good story, get Countdown to Atlanta!
Review: I can't agree with the all the comparisons to Clancy, but for a new writer, this is a wonderful effort. I met the author at a book signing in Lexington, Kentucky - nice guy, good book. I recommend it highly. If John Randall Brown keeps it up, he may well be Clancy's competition in the future

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Summary: great plot, pitiful dialogue...
Review: maybe, just maybe, if the world was as cliched as Mr. Brown portrays it in his book--"on the ball," "True to his form," "never in a million years" "Rome wasn't built in a day" yawwwwnnn.... this might have been a better read. But it wasn't. The plot was well thought out, no question. And the characters are real and likeable. But he takes the cowards way out at times with his research (an entire brewery is constructed with no details) (a 20-something cia agent is top-drawer with no history) etc., and his dialogue is flat and uninspiring. They don't seem to understand the proper use of contractions, pronouns, or implied meaning. Ex: Brown tells us in one passage "the young, red-haired man said, laughingly, "not a chance," holding back a chuckle....a better writer, which Brown may one day turn out to be but isn't, sadly, yet, might have allowed us to infer that the character was laughing, rather than simply telling us. A word of advice to the author from an avid reader and constant consumer: get a thesaurus, quit the cliches, and work on the dialogue