The Scorpio Illusion, (Paperback)

from AliceAnna

I had started this book shortly before 9/11. The plot of an Arab terrorist trying to commit an act that would put the U.S. and the world in turmoil, whose mission was death to all authority, who randomly kill innocents -- not exactly escapism anymore. It is fiction and the good guys do win and th...

from brucemmoyer

Ludlum has this habit of creating character A who is holding a weapon on character B and must dispatch, yet goes into a lengthy monologue, giving B the opportunity to overcome A. Not only is this repeated flaw annoying, it is highly unbelievable. Constant brutal conspiracies abound and they too, ...

from reading_fox

Not one of Ludlum's finest. Unnecessarily convoluted and complex meaning most of the time you have very little idea what's happening, the shallow characters then make random leaps of intuition and arrive at the correct conclusion. Unfortunetly the reader is as bewildered as before. Tyller Hawthor...

from imyknott

A good story but with too many foreign phrases and texts.