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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780007202911
Format: Import
ISBN: 0007202911
Label: Harper Collins
Manufacturer: Harper Collins
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher: Harper Collins
Studio: Harper Collins
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Rating:  - Very Good Book But Too Much Going On
When it comes to sheer writing, sheer plot inventiveness, sheer realism, it's hard to beat Robert Wilson. But, alas, when it comes to a book with too many characters and byzantine plot lines, well, it's also hard to beat Robert Wilson. This book could have benefitted from an editor's blue pencil. I feel it would have been so much better if it had been more focused. I got the feeling the author wanted to cram everything between the covers and he did so, to the detriment of the book. Okay, all ... Read More
Rating:  - A fair-ish book that should have been a terrific book..
My paperback edition of "The Hidden Assassins" is 642 pages in length. At 350 pages, it might have been a fine thriller. At 300, it might have soared to the status of an 87th Precinct-type police procedural set in Spain (no small praise, I assure you!) But at its current length, "The Hidden Assassins" is a bloated, mostly-failed novel with a really hokey title.
The best part of the book--and the part that should have been salvaged by a competent editor, even as she or he wielded ... Read More
Rating: - complex & mature thriller
I enjoyed this book and appreciated some of the ideas found therein. It goes beyond the simple black and white of the world to shades of grey in world view.
The depth and complexity of this story will hook the reader and the reader will stay tuned throughout the investigation.
The maturity of the story was weakened somewhat by the close of the story which didn't settle well with me personally. Things came together too quickly and too smoothly for my personal comfort zone.
Overall ... Read More
Rating: - Trail of Death
The trail of death leads from a faceless body in the garbage dump to an explosion in a suburb of Seville in an apartment building that housed a mosque in the basement. Inspector Falcon and other investigators are trying to figure out what is going on. Why would somebody destroy an entire wing of a building, killing children in a day care center as well? What madness is causing this indiscriminate killing?
You'll find yourself wondering what the personal life of Judge Calderon ... Read More
Rating: - Best in the series
Reviewed by Joanne Benham for Reader Views (01/07)
On a warm summer morning in Seville, Chief Inspector Javier Falcon was investigating the murder of a man found without his head or hands when an explosion rocked the city. A mosque is discovered in the basement of the wrecked apartment building that bore the brunt of the blast, raising terrorism alarm bells that put the city on red alert. When a van with an encoded copy of the Koran is discovered in the immediate area of the blast, the ... Read More
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EAN: 9780007202911
Format: Import
ISBN: 0007202911
Label: Harper Collins
Manufacturer: Harper Collins
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher: Harper Collins
Studio: Harper Collins