This United State: AND Tramp in Armour [Paperback]

Colin Forbes (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Pan Books (October 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0330418203
• ISBN-13: 978-0330418201
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.6 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,250,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A load of nonsense, June 17, 2005

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Erik the Red "All over" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This United State: AND Tramp in Armour (Paperback)

I've just finished reading this novel and quite frankly, I wonder why Colin Forbes bothers. If it had been written by a new author it would be rejected out of hand by publishers. The plot is silly, the dialogue stilted and completely unrealistic, and the characters one-dimensional and stereotypic. The Americans are mostly of the stupid, arrorant and thuggish type (and we know they aren't all like that, don't we!). The sophisticated Yanks prove to be either nutters or British agents!

Forbes' knowledge of firearms seems to have slipped, he names pistols (always old-fashioned ones) but not longarms. Everyone seems to be armed with "machine pistols" which is old terminology. The only rifle he knows seems to be the Armalite which is also rarely used these days.

The use of technology is odd, too. Tweed allegedly mistrusts mobile phones and yet ends up using them throughout the book after Beck lends him some..the final action, where the British defeat the Americans (and Seals, no less) utterly, sees Tweed controlling his forces using mobiles! No "out of area" for him. Ludicrous and stupid.

The whole book is a waste of time in the reading and a waste of print and paper. Forbes should stick to travelogues, he obviously enjoys the travel and that is the one plus in this novel, the descriptions of European towns and cities.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid Avoid Avoid, December 15, 2004

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Joe Soap (Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This United State: AND Tramp in Armour (Paperback)

This book gets one star because that's the least you can give.

I have never read a worse book in my life. Let me rephrase that: I have never partially read a worse book in my life. Anybody who actually finishes this book is illiterate, paid to read it or astonishingly brave.

1.0 out of 5 stars Probably the worse book I have read this century, May 29, 2005

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Marc Berlow (Lille, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This United State: AND Tramp in Armour (Paperback)

The United State has only one thing for it: the concept of the US willing to take over UK as the 51th state.

Besides, no character has any depth at all, detailled plots have no credibility whatsoever, the same absurd sub-plot is delivered 5 times, don't feel obliged to read even if you find it left over a train.