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Meltdown - Martin Baker


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Meltdown - Martin Baker

 
Description: ISBN 0230530303 / Genre: Fiction / Author: Martin Baker / Hardcover / 400 Pages / Book is published 2008-01-04 by Macmillan

Newest Review: ... that there is little to say about it. In fact the brief synopsis on the back cover of the book pretty much tells you most of ... more

 ... the story anyway. The dull pace alone from Meltdown left me bored and uninterested. I found the characters to be generally boring, unbelievable, and all have rather similar traits. The plot like most other things in the book seems rather synthetic and implausible. The frequent sex scenes generally don't work. They simply detract from the (cough) story and seem unnecessary (I never thought I would say that sex is unnecessary). But to tell you the truth, I get the impression that the writer has just wrote them into t...more

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Premium Review Meltdown - Martin Baker: Very Easy To Put Down. (464 words)
by - written on 13/01/09 (Very useful, 87 readings)
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Meltdown written by Martin Baker, attempts to deal with the complex world of international finance, greed and corruption. I don't consider myself to be an expect with books of this genre, having only read four or five thrillers in the past, but I still know what to expect and what I should get from a book like this, and sadly I have to say that Meltdown could have been, but more to the point should have been so much better. I would normally go in to the details of the story at this point, but in this case I can't because it's so unremarkable that there is little to say about it. In fact the brief synopsis on the back cover of the book pretty much ...  Read the complete review

 

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