Friday, October 3, 2008

The Scorpion's Gate, by Richard A. Clarke

Mr. Clarke is no doubt better at his day job than he is as a fiction writer. While the plot lines were plausible and the scenarios gave him an opportunity to work out some of his opinions, the writing was too mumbled to be very enjoyable. I blame this on the editor. Not a bad book, just a bumpy one. I had to skip over many pages of turgid writing to get through it. But it got me through a flight just fine...