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5 comments about The Coil: A Novel (Unabridged).

1. It's incomrehensible that someone would give this 4 or 5 stars. I was interested in this book since I heard the author say she researched the Bilderberg Group for 8 years. Full disclosure, I'm only halfway in but instead of providing any illumination as to the Bilderberg Group agenda, besides the obvious (globalization) this follows a tired formula.
   
   But the worst part is what one reviewer correctly described as the tin-eared dialogue. In addition, there are the fanciful names, the lack of believable emotion or plot, and, again, the writing overall. This is just terrible; the writers who really did this well were LeCarre in The Spy who Came in from the Cold and Alan Furst provides some really nice writing to go with his spy novels.



2. Though the author explains at the end how the plot of this novel came to her mind, I do not yet know what she had in mind when she wrote The Coil
   
   There are key elements that a great spy novel cannot afford to lack, and in The Coil you will never find, a bottomline fiery existent mystery to entice the readers, a very well strong developed character (either a lovable hero or a bad guy or both), ingenious twist and turns (I could not find even a single one), action packed suspense and a deep background research to make it believable,
   
   Instead, The Coil exhibits and array of cardboard characters and silly situations that quickly turn into a chaotic maelstrom and at one point one gets lost and drowns in an ocean roiled with cardboard characters, cities and situations, most of them similar in substance, (and wonders - what is the author after ?), and with this scheme the story plods along all the way to the end
   
   In addition, language and dialogues are very poor and there is neither climate nor emotion
   
   I thought, I just had found a lovable spy book in the line of Frederic Forsyth blockbusters but made a big mistake.



3. Liz Stansborough is a professor in Santa Barbara, CA where she instructs her students on what is an all too real aspect of her life - violence. She is a product of the CIA at Langley, VA and her father was the notorious assassin, The Carnivore. There have long been suspected files that are rumored to be the Carnivore's kill files. And these files seem to have surfaced as a valuable blackmail tool. Liz, herself, becomes a target of the blackmailer as well as other nefarious groups that want these files at all costs. Who can Liz trust and will she be able to save her own life and the reputation of her father?
   
   This book is really bad. Of all the thrillers out there, this one tries to steal the plot twists and turns but, in the end, is boring. The characters do not peak any interest or instill any loyalty and if you continue to turn the pages it will be out of a respect for reading books, not out of any interest in this story. The plot is painfully slow and does nothing to move the story along. Of the millions of murder/mystery/spy/thriller/page turners out there, this one is dismally low in the count.



4. Great story! Im so glad that this sequel to the Masquerade was written as I loved the characters and really want to get to know them even more...please keep the series coming!



5. I love spy thrillers, but this one fizzled out after a strong start. The writing was so poor starting about 100 pages in, I gave up soon after. Lynds repeatedly tells us what the character is feeling rather than showing us, and I hate that, it is a hallmark of poor fiction writing.
   
   The first several chapter though, were quite strong, and very reminiscent of Ludlum. Did he write the first few chapters for his protege before he passed away? I don't know, but it's hard not to think so when the book took such an abrupt turn for the worst.

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