The opening scene is of an airport that's been flooded. Old MacLean would have described it -explosions, people getting swept away, the devastation. Not boozy on-the-road-to-dying MacLean. He just announces what's happened.
This is bad. Really bad. Endless pages of people talking. Talk goes on forever. Characters are indistinguishable from each other. Are they goodies? Or baddies? Can you tell the difference?
Some girls get kidnapped? Or do they? I can't tell. It's all dialogue dialogue dialogue. The villains are connected with the IRA. They are BAD.
The cover of this has childhood resonance for me. It was excellent art - an airport being flooded. That's not reflected in the book. It's flabby. Dumb. I was so bored.
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