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The Road to Armageddon

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When I picked up this book in the book store I was hooked right from the start. Larry Collins, also the author of O Jeruselum (Another must have!) wrote this as a work of fiction but it embraces particles of truth which keep you questioning the entire plot. When I got home, I spent the duration of the night sitting at my desk and literally at the edge of my chair until I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. I totally reccomend this book to anyone looking for a nonfiction thriller walking hand-in-hand with fact, and anyone interested in a great read!!!!!

I'm not usually into this sort of thing but my friend reccomended that I read it. By the time I had finished all 300 and some pages I had a totally different outlook on life. It's like a fact based fiction story that really makes you question what our world is coming to. Exporting opium, the Russian army, I mean this story is way intense and I reccomend it to anyone and everyone!1!!!

This was a pretty good thriller but I have to agree with another reviewer who was put off by the typos. This publisher desperately needs a proofreader. For example, on one page Charlie Wilson's name is spelled correctly but on the next it's spelled "Charley Wilson". There are numerous other examples and I have to admit they were distracting. I kept thinking why this author needed to be published by such a incompetent company.

I had a great deal of trouble getting through this book. The story is absorbing, the writing is vivid --- but the editing, to say the least, leaves something to be desired for a trade hardback. In the first 18 pages, I found ten serious editorial errors, including left-out apostrophes ("the Mullahs men") and hyphens ("off white", "five day"), misspelled names ("Addidas", "Dusseldorf"), misinflections (an image of an eagle "rung" with a circular band), and, unbelievably, an incorrect conversion from kilometers to miles. Such errors continue through the book. One cannot comfortably move with the flow of an author's prose when one's sensibilities are being continually assaulted by such barbarisms.

carry the readers interest. The author has been doing this for a long time and knows how to turn the pages. But the ending is a big let down, realistic, perhaps, but a disappointment nonetheless. The facts are scary enough to make it a worthwhile read.

Collins & Lapierre were a writing team whose books I adored, especially O Jerusalem and Freedom at Midnight. In fact I visited both Israel and India as a result of reading those books.Since the team broke up, I haven't read anything by either of them that compares with their collaborative work.

I did not find The Road to Armageddon exactly "gripping", as some of the reviews indicated, but it was interesting enough to actually finish. Collins' concept is utterly fascinating (how Afghan poppies fund Radical Islamic mischief)and should, I feel, most properly have been a work of investigative journalism. The unconvincing characters detracted from my interest in the book. Strangely,new characters were being introduced even toward the very end of the story. The style was positively cluttered with irrelevant detail - such as giving all distances in miles and km. Really, is this necessary?

Mr. Collins: Return to non-fiction, your true gift.Better still, get going with Dominique Lapierre again! And please, do lose the off-putting gutter language in your dialogue.

EXCELLENT WRITING...AFTER FINISHING THIS BOOK I IMEDIATELY HAD TO LOG ON TO AMAZON TO FIND OUT WHAT OTHER BOOKS THIS AUTHOR HAD WRITTEN!!! I BOUGHT 3 MORE BY THIS AUTHOR AND HOPE THEY ARE AS GOOD!!!

This book is a thriller which describes how money received from trafficking heroin could be used by terrorists to aquire weapons to carry out attacks. the author spends a lot of time describing the various tactics used by the terrorists and the police to outwit each other.Actually this part of the book is the only minor flaw as the story gets a bit bogged down in the middle as the authour describes in great detail how the heroin trade works in the Middle East.The last third of this book is very exiting.Overall the book is both exiting and informative.

This may be a fictional story, but it could very easily become reality. After reading it, you can see that all of the events could be in tomorrow's headlines. It is a great story that moves along quickly and is easy to read. The characters are not really well developed but this is a plot oriented story. It is quite scary and Mr. Collins seems to have a lot of factual knowledge to support this storyline. My only complaint is the romantic byline in the second half of the book. Although not much time was devoted to it, it is the one unbelievable event in the book. Otherwise I highly recommend it. It is a story that will scare you and keep you reading late into the night.

I have been a big fan of Larry Collins' books over the years and started off very engrossed in his latest, The Road To Armageddon, as well. However, the extreme amount of detail Collins offers on everything from money laundering to obtaining materials for use in developing nuclear devices made me feel I was reading a "How To" primer rather than a thriller. As a result, after forcing myself to read about half of the book, I had to give up. Life is too short and there are too many books to read to make me try to finish this book. I wouldn't be surpised that if I was able to finish the book, it would have been a good read. Most of Collins' books are. But, I guess, the ability to work your way through the overwhelming amount of detail requires much more willpower than I have. I can't say that The Road To Armageddon is a bad book, since I wasn't able to finish it. The purpose of my review is to alert you to what you are in for should you attempt to read The Road To Armageddon. Caveat emptor!