Pageturner let down by the ending
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Nothing further to add to the title really; enjoyed the high tempo cat'n'mouse yarn and how 9/11 provided an original context...
...However, the main characters live happily ever after and any revelations in the final pages were predictable (yawn). That's entertainment I guess!
I was hoping for complete carnage at the end with the possibility of the next novel being from the perspective of Olga the Hitwoman (the most interesting character)... It still leaves the possibility of a sequel, as she escapes death, but I doubt it would have much commercial attraction to Archer's publishers. Happy to be proved wrong.
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False Impression - jeffrey archer
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Good fast paced story that really gets you gripped early. Has the added drama of being set at the time of the 9/11 disaster. Main characters interesting and well described.
Well worth the read
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Interesting to the last page.
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Jeffrey Archer is one of the best authors - I can never put his books down.This one is one of his best.
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Nonsense yet a pageturner
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It's difficult to know what to make of this book... on the one hand it's easy-to-read and a real page turner. The characters are fairly simple to understand, the plot is fairly sequential, and I suppose you'd consider this good holiday reading material. Certain aspects seem very well researched and it's a book that's easy to put down and pick up again without having to go back too far.
On the other hand I would have expected more from Jeffrey Archer - compared to some of his earlier books this is several steps backwards. His characters are not believable, the storyline is far fetched to put it mildly, there's something just thoroughly unconvincing about this book.
If I was to make a comparison to anything I would actually liken this book to some of the Sean Dillon stories by Jack Higgins - a page-turner yet completely off this planet!
In terms of a rating, I'd give it five stars for being a page-turner, and one star for being unconvincing... so an average of 3 seems about right.
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set in 2001 but makes a 2004 blunder!!!
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Mr Archer- clearly you don't have a smart proofreader! The story is set in 2001 and you mention a 2004 event! Unless your character (Insurance guy) has a crystal ball, he wouldn't have mentioned the "Scream" painting of Edward Munch which was stolen in August 2004. Whoopsy- someone's done a faux pas!
OTherwise, clearly Mr archer hasn't lost his touch, can still write a well-paced interesting read!
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