“Fun, entertaining read. Ethan Gage reads like a cross between Indiana Jones ("Savant" instead of Professor, French in place of Germans) and Ethan Hunt/James Bond (the whole "spy" thing and getting involved with multiple women). The action was good, the puzzles simple but entertaining, and the historical context was pretty good...but in the end there's too much deus ex machina to get Ethan out of jams. Also, Ethan is written a bit inconsistently--one moment he's intelligent enough to figure his way out of things, the next he stupidly walks into traps.
Still, though, I'd recommend this as a good beach book, not to be taken too seriously.”
daddychoy wrote this review Tuesday, October 14 2008.
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