Maximum Vigilance [Mass Market Paperback]

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• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Warner (1992)
• ASIN: B001E31ZOM
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst book I've ever read, December 11, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Maximum Vigilance (Paperback)

I was just surfing through amazon.com with no intention of writing a review on anything. By chance I came across this book that I read several years ago. I can't resist being the first to review it. I read about 100 books a year, and to tell the truth only about 10 of them make any impression. This was one of them. The worst book I've ever read (and I just finished the horrible "wizards and glass" by Stephen King. You have to read this book to believe it. Truly terrible.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Highly Improbable, November 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Maximum Vigilance (Paperback)

I had recently been reading some of the Tom Clancy novels and ran across this book. Clancy wrote a glowing foreword for the book and I began reading it with high expectations. I found it difficult to follow - needlessly complex in some areas and terribly oversimplified in others. The main character, Desaix Clark, seemed a composite of James Bond, Arnold Schwartzenegger and Sigmund Freud. From the relatively obscure position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Desaix not only saves the world from World War III he also foils attempted coups in the US and Russia. With a beautiful (and lesbian) secret service agent as his principal ally he survives despite being pitted against the President, Secretaries of State and Defense, the CIA and the Military Machine. Then there is the obligatory high-stakes poker game with the Russian Marshal Kulikov, who's ready to push the button send the world into oblivion. The ending certainly didn't take much imagination to figure out.

Although the book had some interesting insights on government workings at the highest level, I was disappointed on the whole. I certainly expected something more believable from an author with the resume of Pieczenik.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars good lord, May 25, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Maximum Vigilance (Paperback)

with out a doubt the worst book I have ever read