Deception [Hardcover]

John Altman (Author)

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• Hardcover
• ASIN: B002SVLDVO
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! Again!, July 30, 2003

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C. Workers (Tyler, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deception (Hardcover)

The stories and characters are immensely alive, well-plotted, and consistently engaging;give yourself a gift of this (along with his other books!)...

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, June 22, 2003

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This review is from: Deception (Hardcover)

What I really like about his books is that his main characters are always women -- and they're never entirely evil or entirely good. In this one, Hannah makes one mistake that blows up in her face -- and it's the kind of thing that could happen to anyone. A spy thriller with great action and suspense, but characters who remind you of people you meet in the street? Altman and maybe Ken Follett when he was at the top of his game are the only two people who I think do that.
Read it in about two hours -- it's shorter than the first two for some reason.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and Well-Written, August 1, 2003

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Elizabeth Delafield (Boalsburg, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deception (Hardcover)

Altman is a new favorite author of mine. I began with his "Gathering of Spies" and have just now finished "Deception." I think its a close call between which two is the best book. Both stories are good and compelling.

Hannah, like the character of Katerina Heinrich before her, is an ambivalent woman whose motivations and longings are not the typical heroine's. It makes her all the more human, all the more realistic, because she isn't some grand, holy protagonist, but just a young woman who's made some bad choices in her life and is now mixed up in a situation that ordinary people aren't suited for.

I liked the dichotomy between Hannah and Keyes, as each character is pressured further and further by the events that bombard them. It was interesting to watch how they each responded and how they dealt with what was before them.