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Cyclops One

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Jim DeFelice is a writer with craft and style. His character development goes beyond the pedestrian and trite descriptions of other action authors. He puts you in the pocket of FBI agent Andy Fisher as his right-brain analyses keep his cohorts two steps behind his cloud of cigarette smoke. Makes you want to have a scotch and a smoke with him - just don't offer to play barroom darts!

I first discovered DeFelice's writing in his opening four paragraphs of 'Wolf Flight' in Coonts' 'Victory - On The Attack'. His opening page of 'Wolf Flight' took me over with his striking literary beauty. What clarity and significance of writing! It's the kind of writing that English professors should assign as Summer reading to incoming freshmen. The kind of writing perfection that the book critics miss every day, to their eternal shame.

Put DeFelice on your Author Search. You won't be disappointed.

What Arthur Conan Doyle did for detective fiction, Jim DeFelice does for the techno-thriller. And CYCLOPS ONE certainly lives up to expectations. Andy Fisher, the flip, funny hero of the novel, drives this nail-biter like a runaway freight train. DeFelice fans get ready for the ride of your life!

DeFelice pulls out all the stops in his techno arsenal creating vivid characters amid up to date world events. His chain-smoking FBI agent, Fisher, is one of the most vivid heroes in the genre. I couldn't put it down.

Having been an editor and writer for 40 years, I wouls have to rate this book as one of the worst I have ever read, except maybe for Deep Black, which the author collaborated with Stephen Coonts. DeFelice is either a product of the dumbing down of American education, or is merely catering to the techno-nerds who couldn't tell an oratorio from an opera. The wrting is so devoid of cogent plot lines, developed characters, and continuity, that it might as well have been written for people who are more comfortable with pictures than words. This book is truly the result of someone imbued with the postmodern notion of deconstruction, i.e. that words have no meaning. It is nothing more than a listing of high-tech gadgetry (real or imagined) that would display itself in mindless video games. It is definitely a waste of money and time.