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Lethal Secrets

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Started out good...i.e. the writing was good, the story was different, characters were cliché, but I ignored it. Then it all started to collapse on page 135...i.e. things just became too unbelievable to ignore. And the ending was disgustingly lame. Even if 9/10 of the book happened to be good the ending alone would have killed it.

In a nut shell. A Chechen (islamic) freedom fighter is informed that an old (1955) soviet nuclear bomb is alive and well hidden behind a false wall in the old Soviet Embassy in Washington D.C.. The freedom fighter sees it as a gift from allah and proceeds to threaten the US into forcing the Russians out of Chechnya. There's a side story going on also involving the main character, Russian mafia related.

One example of the moronic ending. If you and your buddies were entrusted with the safe and swift (it's set to detonate in just 2 1/2 hrs) removal of a nuclear bomb out of Washington D.C., what would you being doing and thinking at the time? Well our two main characters strip their clothes off and screw like rabbits. That's just one example. Need I say more.

Given Pete Earley writes mostly nonfiction (true crime) and was a former newspaper, reporter I assumed his fiction would be more intelligent than most but sadly it is not.