- Paperback
- Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (11 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330418203
- ISBN-13: 978-0330418201
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.6 x 4.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,809,857 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A load of nonsense
18 Jun 2005
I've just finished reading this novel and quite frankly, I wonder why Colin Forbes bothers. If it had been written by a new author it would be rejected out of hand by publishers. The plot is silly, the dialogue stilted and completely unrealistic, and the characters one-dimensional and stereotypic. The Americans are mostly of the stupid, arrorant and thuggish type (and we know they aren't all like that, don't we!). The sophisticated Yanks prove to be either nutters or British agents!
Forbes' knowledge of firearms seems to have slipped, he names pistols (always old-fashioned ones) but not longarms. Everyone seems to be armed with "machine pistols" which is old terminology. The only rifle he knows seems to be the Armalite which is also rarely used these days.
The use of technology is odd, too. Tweed allegedly mistrusts mobile phones and yet ends up using them throughout the book after Beck lends him some..the final action, where the British defeat the Americans (and Seals, no less) utterly, sees Tweed controlling his forces using mobiles! No "out of area" for him. Ludicrous and stupid.
The whole book is a waste of time in the reading and a waste of print and paper. Forbes should stick to travelogues, he obviously enjoys the travel and that is the one plus in this novel, the descriptions of European towns and cities.
Forbes' knowledge of firearms seems to have slipped, he names pistols (always old-fashioned ones) but not longarms. Everyone seems to be armed with "machine pistols" which is old terminology. The only rifle he knows seems to be the Armalite which is also rarely used these days.
The use of technology is odd, too. Tweed allegedly mistrusts mobile phones and yet ends up using them throughout the book after Beck lends him some..the final action, where the British defeat the Americans (and Seals, no less) utterly, sees Tweed controlling his forces using mobiles! No "out of area" for him. Ludicrous and stupid.
The whole book is a waste of time in the reading and a waste of print and paper. Forbes should stick to travelogues, he obviously enjoys the travel and that is the one plus in this novel, the descriptions of European towns and cities.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Avoid Avoid Avoid
15 Dec 2004
This book gets one star because that's the least you can give.
I have never read a worse book in my life. Let me rephrase that: I have never partially read a worse book in my life. Anybody who actually finishes this book is illiterate, paid to read it or astonishingly brave.
I have never read a worse book in my life. Let me rephrase that: I have never partially read a worse book in my life. Anybody who actually finishes this book is illiterate, paid to read it or astonishingly brave.
Probably the worse book I have read this century
29 May 2005
The United State has only one thing for it: the concept of the US willing to take over UK as the 51th state.
Besides, no character has any depth at all, detailled plots have no credibility whatsoever, the same absurd sub-plot is delivered 5 times, don't feel obliged to read even if you find it left over a train.
Besides, no character has any depth at all, detailled plots have no credibility whatsoever, the same absurd sub-plot is delivered 5 times, don't feel obliged to read even if you find it left over a train.
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