Review: Did others read a different book?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 13, 2011
I thought this was just a horrible book.  The writing seemed to be the result of some creative writing class assignment, the dialogue was trite and cliched.  Just as an example, the death of two people who are discovered in a crash train car are proclaimed as "not accidental" by the police - what gave it away, the multiple stab wounds or the fact that the bodies were already in rigor and the train car just crashed.  A monopoly on world food supplies by controlling the seeds - anyone ever hear of Burpees.The whole opening scene consists of our "hero" chasing after a runaway train car (to do what we have no idea since it's a 70 ton runaway) and causes several traffic accidents that kill innocent people and we're somehow supposed to overlook that because he had a higher purpose in somehow warning the town of the runaway car.  It made absolutely no sense to me and even the crash scene is so exaggerated as to be unbelievable (do you really think a fully loaded boxcar is going to slide that far on it's ride after coming off the rails - come on).The story line was weak, the characters shallow and not particularly likeable and the protagonist can seemingly kill at will without getting caught.  This is the one of the few times I bought a Kindle version of a book without downloading a sample first because of all the positive reviews.  Wish I'd saved the $3.00 as the sample would have taken me far enough into the book to realize this just isn't a good book.My apologies to all those that read and absolutely raved about this book.  There are so many well written, exciting and suspenseful books in the Kindle library that something as trite as this just doesn't deserve to be read.  I'm obviously in the minority here but do follow my suggestion and sample the book before buying.