About this title: After samples of a rare disease are stolen from an American scientist attached to the Department of Defense, Covert-One operative Lt. Col. Jon Smith, is dispatched to Prague. The disease is the perfect assassination tool--a bioweapon that, using each target's DNA, is undetectable, unstoppable, and incurable.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780312990718ISBN:0312990715
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Excellent condition. Very light edge and corner wear. No marks. Tight, square book. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 456 p. Covert-One (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780312990718ISBN:0312990715
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 456 p. Covert-One (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780312990718ISBN:0312990715
Description: Good. No Jacket. Light wear to corners and edges, some creasing to spine, sticker on back cover. text appears unmarked, binding is strong. over all nice copy. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780312990718ISBN:0312990715
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Very good clean flat paperback with only very light overall wear. pages clean and unmarked. nice copy! read more
"I like Robert Ludlum, but for some reason, it takes me forever to get through one of his books. I have a tendency to read other books at the same time. I'll finish it eventually."
"Oh my. This book was bad. I was going to say really bad, but in the penultimate chapter I actually was engaged by the plot for about 3 pages.
It bothers me when publishers deke the reader with a cover that screams ROBERT LUDLUM'S MOSCOW VECTOR then in tiny letters written by patrick larkin. I want to know exactly the extent of Robert Ludlum's involvement in this book project. I bet he didn't read it. If he had he wouldn't have put his name on it.
The body count? I lost count. There was no holding back for Robert Ludlum's Patrick Larkin. Every time you turned around somebody was getting executed. Really unnecessary massacres.
The dialogue in this book was awkward & not like real conversations between people. Every male character called every female character "Ms." The Russian bad guys called the female CIA agents "Ms" Whatever. At one point even another woman called a female agent "Ms." Um, we don't talk like that in real life.
The use of cliches was rampant. Whew. No original writing here. Also the writer used weird phrasing like he'd run out of ways to say "he said." At one point the dialogue went something like this: "'The drone missile has missed its target & hit civilians,' he said seriously." Isn't the fact he said it "seriously" implied?
The author (who was the author?) seemed to be intent on sharing his knowledge (or recently-acquired research) about firearms & ammunition. Detailed descriptions of every weapon & its magazine, clip, bullet, or whatever other name you want to use for it was supplied in almost every chapter.
And speaking of chapters: When is a lot too many? There were at least 50 chapters in this book. I was more engaged by the old Nancy Drew books written by the old syndicates. They stuck to a 20-or-so chapter maximum (you always knew whodunit by Chapter XX).
The reader of this book had an annoying habit of making (US) President Sam Castilla sound just like George W. Bush. I was waiting for him to say, "That dog don't hunt" or "Big hat, no cattle." He came close. That was really irksome, having to be reminded of W, just when I was trying so hard to forget him (along with the rest of the country).
The main reason why I disliked this book was because it was boring. Also, I love John le Carre & this book wasn't fit to act as a bookend to his spy novels."
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