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71 Hours
Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 1977
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January 10, 2025
2.5 stars
Originally reviewed on The StoryGraph
Can a book be simultaneously highly engaging and absolutely dull? Because that’s what this book was. A whole lot of “tell, don’t show” happening, but the plot - chasing down and catching a possible assassin before it’s too late - makes the fact that this book is just a bunch of FBI debrief conversations somehow enjoyable in the moment? The entire plot (from discovering the possibility of an assassination plot to the arrival of the potential assassination victim) takes place over the titular 71 hours, making for a fast-paced plot once you get out of the debrief sessions that make up the majority of the word count.
I have no idea what to classify this as, other than “book written for 1970’s businessmen to buy in the airport right before their flight”
My rating might be generous solely because political thriller trash is a guilty pleasure genre for me (read: I (a then-teenage girl) went through a John Grisham phase during peak Twilight Saga era)
Originally reviewed on The StoryGraph
Can a book be simultaneously highly engaging and absolutely dull? Because that’s what this book was. A whole lot of “tell, don’t show” happening, but the plot - chasing down and catching a possible assassin before it’s too late - makes the fact that this book is just a bunch of FBI debrief conversations somehow enjoyable in the moment? The entire plot (from discovering the possibility of an assassination plot to the arrival of the potential assassination victim) takes place over the titular 71 hours, making for a fast-paced plot once you get out of the debrief sessions that make up the majority of the word count.
I have no idea what to classify this as, other than “book written for 1970’s businessmen to buy in the airport right before their flight”
My rating might be generous solely because political thriller trash is a guilty pleasure genre for me (read: I (a then-teenage girl) went through a John Grisham phase during peak Twilight Saga era)
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