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Cutting Edge (Tom Clancy's Power Plays)Snagging.org In association with Amazon.co.ukOnline Shop | Property Guides | Kitchen & Home | Garden Tools | Power Tools | Consumer Electronics Get the Snagging Checklist Here! Cutting Edge (Tom Clancy's Power Plays) by: Tom Clancy [Created by], Martin Harry Greenberg [Created by], Jerome Preisler  List Price: £6.99 Price: £1.75 You Save: £5.24 (75%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780140294941 ISBN: 0140294945 Label: Penguin Books Ltd Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: December 05, 2002 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Studio: Penguin Books Ltd Related Items:
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 Rating:  - SynopsisAfrica becomes the battlegorund in 21st-century war. As fibreoptic cable is laid down around the continent, two entities fight to control it. One is Uplink Communications, headed by Roger Gordian. The pan-African fibreoptic ring is his most ambitious...and expensive...endeavour to date. His nemesis, Harlan DeVane, is penetrating the network. Trading in black-market commodities with terrorists and rogue states, the cable offers him unlimited accesss to a most valuable product: information. To ensure his success, DeVane makes his move halfway around the world. He hits Gordian where it hurts... and kidnaps his daughter. Now Gordiam must trust his Uplink team as never before, as they fight on land and sea to turn the tables against DeVane ... once and for all. Rating:  - Tom Clancy's 'Cuting Edge' - anything butTom Clancy is following a growing trend amongst some of our best known authors in employing a 'hack' writer to 'ghost' a plot which he has conceived. Sadly, the quality of writing does not approach that of the Tom Clancy that we know. It may well be that the writer - Jerome Preisler - has been overawed by the task alloted to him, or perhaps he was simply not up to the task. I found the descriptive passages both tedious and verbose, with the book struggling (and failing) to achieve any structure or early cohesive plot. The book was a chore to read (unlike those written by Tom Clancy himself) and would have put it away, had I not been intrigued to see if the mediocrity continued to the end. I am left wondering how many of us could become famous authors if all we had to do was to produce an outline plot and leave others to do the writing. As a 'masterpiece', it is as gifted as 'painting by numbers'!  Try searching the Internet for "Cutting Edge (Tom Clancy's Power Plays)" or Ebay for "Cutting Edge (Tom Clancy's Power Plays)". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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