Jim K. (papertiger) - reviewed Patrick Larkin is no Robert Ludlum on 2/2/2009 + 42 more book reviews

If you were a fan of Robert Ludlum and expecting clever intrigue, carefully drawn characters, in complicated but credible plots then this is not for you. Larkin follows some of the rough outlines of a Ludlum thriller but goes over the top early with a plot that involves world wide genocide, no less, with science fiction nanomachines that strain credibility to the breaking point. Readers familiar with Dale Brown and his series involving Patrick McLanahan and high-tech developmental air power will have seen the same sort of excess when he made the jump from tricked out B-52's and brave shock troopers to orbiting fighter planes and manned robotic super-soldiers. At least Brown did it to himself and can rue the consequences. All Robert Ludlum can do is roll over in his grave. Please, enough.

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