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The reader is a disaster!

English readers in general are very, very good... except when it comes to rendering American accents, which they seem to have learned from old James Cagney movies. Everyone, no matter what their class or background, talks like a New Jersey mobster. Lewis Hancock descends to new lows. His version of one of the main characters in the novel is grotesque -- not to say downright insulting. While Black Out is by no means one of Lawton's best novels, it's still entertaining and generally well written, but when the American character enters the scene, which is only too often, it's just painful.

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Terrible

Sigh. After Bluffing Mr. Churchill, I was excited to try this follow-up. The book starts out good enough--the plot develops, then.......it just wanders and really goes nowhere. And at some point it turns into a weird, awkward Harlequin romance where it just becomes Troy recounting his sexual encounters along the way. I had to stop about 3/4 of the way through--just couldn't take anymore. I totally lost interest in what I thought to be the main plot--a string of "mysterious" murders, that really weren't all that mysterious. You find out who the killer is (or who it is believed to be) very early. Maybe there's a twist but I couldn't gut it out long enough to find out. I wanted to like this book, but it just didn't hold my interest. The characters are not developed and are not interesting. The reader doesn't really care about any of the characters enough to get invested in the story. Don't waste your money--or more importantly, your time.

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Love these novels!

Hurry up & commit the rest of the John Lawton books to audio!!! Love the books & narration.

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