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Praise for 'The Righteous Men': 'The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown ! a highly charged, theologically accurate tale' Mirror 'Compulsive reading ! successfully blends ancient teachings with the highly charged ways of the 21st century ! bears all the hallmarks of a blockbuster' Daily Express 'The best thriller I've read in years.' Piers Morgan 'More readable than The Da Vinci Code -- the sense of menace is darker and the characters more believable' Esquire
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`The best thriller I've read in years.'
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too long by far,
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This review is from: The Last Testament (Paperback)
I enjoyed Jonathan Freedland`s "The Righteous Men" a lot even though it was pure hokum; I quite enjoyed "The Final Reckoning". This book I found quite dreadful. I did not care about the characters (two dimensional) and I was desperate to finish this book. Too often writers in this genre feel that they have to produce a book of at least 500 pages. Fine if you have literary skills but the results can be quite dreadful if you haven`t. This book should have been cut by at least 200 pages. Eric Ambler with this material might have produced something good.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The British Da Vinci Code,
By Captain Blizzard (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Last Testament (Paperback)
You're pretty much warned what you're buying when you read what it says on the cover: "The Biggest Challenger to Dan Brown's Crown". Whether or not you agree with this is a matter of personal opinion, though it does at least hint at what the story's going to be about. Yes folks, it's another yarn about ancient relics and the secrets they protect. As with the DVC, there's a male/female protagonist alliance with the requisite sexual chemistry thrown in, and a host of faceless baddies whose big boss isn't revealed until near the end of the book.
But so long as you're prepared to accept that this is a fun read and has few pretentions to literary acclaim, it's actually pretty enjoyable. It's easy to sneer at the constant page-turning style of this sort of novel, but it's hard to see how a story about a missing clay tablet could really be written any other way - I mean, how long could that premise realistically be expected to hold our interest?! The tablet in question is purportedly the last will and testament of Abraham, a document of such political and religious significance that anyone who so much as hears of its existence has a nasty habit of snuffing it fairly soon afterwards. I did have a bit of a problem with the faceless goons that dispatched these unfortunates - the author doesn't really try to explain how they managed to chase their targets so effectively other than to make continued references to "bugs" and hi-tech surveillance, which sometimes feels like a cop-out. But, as I said, it's all enjoyable enough - despite a rather strange side story about characters floating around in the online game "Second Life", which I still haven't quite figured out. You might even learn a few things of interest, which is something I also liked about Dan Brown's books (even if he did have a tendency to show off his knowledge a bit and draw some questionable conclusions). Don't expect any major dramatic finish here though... if you think about the author's available options, it's pretty clear he has nowhere much to go! Ignore this, put your brain in neutral (or maybe just 1st gear) and enjoy the ride!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed with too little too late at novels end,
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This review is from: The Last Testament (Audio CD)
Liek some others here I was not overly impressed with this novel and found it jumping around all over the place at the start with characters appearing and disappearing in a flash usually being murdered. Attempts to put the core of story in historical and religious context which is not easy admittedly but I found myself struggling to stay with this book , and my brother in law gave up pretty quickly. It does build up a head of steam eventually and some twists and turns work well but I could not really recommend if Im honest.
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