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Quantico | 
| Author: Greg Bear
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
Buy New: £17.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 482580
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.6
ISBN: 0007129785
EAN: 9780007129782
ASIN: 0007129785
Publication Date: November 21, 2005
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 Too much like reading the TV news May 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I want non reality
The real world is full of nasty nations killing each other, strife and hassle.
I do all all that in RL
At home -I want to read fantasy
non-real worlds of wonder
This is the wrong track -if you want all this -just watch the TV news instead
yawn..............
A Liberal Tom Clancy March 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A liberal Tom Clancy, and I don't use the phrase in a complimentary manner. I've read Greg Bear before and this is distinctly lackluster compared to quality work such as EON. As in so much of this genre, the plot only holds together by coincidence and revelation, the characters whilst engaging are unsophisticated and the politics particularly insipid. All in all a disappointment from an author that is capable of delivering more.
 Excellent read August 29, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Greg Bear has certainly written a page turner with Quantico.
A quite beleivable story of bio-terrorism that fairly races along. The synopsis explains all you need to know so I won't repeat it. Just buy the book and enjoy a good read.
Great read August 25, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have read a lot of Greg Bear's novels and liked them all. This one is no exception. The review above pretty much tells the story. There are a lot of shenagigans going on between various factions both within and without the FBI that sits well within the overall storyline.
I read this in one sitting, just could not put it down. The characters are well formed and the story itself quite beleivable. If you enjoy a good thriller this could well do it for you.
 Ok, but not brilliant August 21, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I always get nervous when an author moves out of genre. More often than not it's a mistake. I thought long and and hard about buying the book because recently I've read several novels by authors who should have stuck to writing what they know about.
In the event I needn't have worried. It's a near future thriller and handled with all the style that Bears readers will already know and he makes the transition from SF to thriller with ease.
Characterisation is slim, but given the books breadth of scope and (comparative) lack of pages he does what he can. If it was a film, I could have imagined some of the actors asking 'what's my motivation' when they were reading the script. The story moves along briskly carried from several viewpoints and with no real holes in the plot. There's technology there, but it's not too far removed from what we know and therefore isn't the star of the show.
There'd have been 4 stars if the ending had been better. It's not that it's implausible or exactly disappointing, but perhaps from my perspective it's a bit abrupt and not the one I'd have written :-) as it seems out of place with the tone of the rest of the book.
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