The Talbot Odyssey
by Nelson DeMille
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Author: Nelson DeMilleEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-07-01
ISBN: 0446358584
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Book Reviews of The Talbot Odyssey
Book Review: Not to be believed
Summary: 2 Stars
As a DeMille fan, even I thought this a real stretch. I'm not sure how contracts work, but this had to be the last of a multi-book deal. I thought "General's Daughter" was hard to imagine, that was plausable compared to "Talbot's..." DeMille does not know how to write poorly - that would probably be like asking a good speller to make some mistakes, just to write faster. On the other hand the setting, circumstances, the private nature of a bunch of elderly, retired OSS types mounting an assault on a Russian country home in New Jersey - and having the CIA, NSA and lord knows how many more initials allow and even participate is odd in the extreme. The notion of EMP, or Electronic Pulse bringing down the USA is not new, I guess the first time I read it in popular fiction was in "View to Kill" - a James Bond thriller sometime in the 80's - I think they even made a movie of it. But if you like implausable plots, circumstance, and a body c! ount to rival any Terminator movie - this is for you. By unofficial count, before the book even got to the assault stage, not less than 17 or so folks met their just deserts - these were the 'more or less' good guys. You have folks being shot, thrown off buildings, pushed out of planes, whacked on the head with rubber mallets and then the fellow's plane being put on auto pilot, stabbed in the head with an ice pick (bartender), strangled, eating a tuft of his own hair that had cyanide on it, not to mention the mundane machine guns and pistols - all silenced. The sound of all the dead bodies falling must have been deafening. I was struck by the number of 'groin' shots - at least two were shot, one was bayoneted and while not killed, at least one woman was kicked there. During the assault, one lost count. At one point, it appeared that some 200 people had been poisoned because they were at a noisy party, and over 100 Russian dependents were gassed - sleeping gas. Whew! Even so! , the book kept you busy, just trying to remember who was d! ead, who was thought to be dead, but really not, etc. At some point or another, there seemed to be only two people who were not double or triple agents, our hero the cop/lawyer and a dead guy. Then the dead guy comes back to life and is the ultimate enemy. If I had it to do over, I would have preferred to have borrowed this book from someone or picked it up at the library. I certainly hope that this was just an 'early' novel - it was published in 1993, and not indicative of future direction - though I have read other reviews of more recent books that sound the same - "Mayday". I sure hope DeMille has enough money and can now take the time to get a little closer to reality in the future - but that's why they call this form of writing a 'novel' - it sure was that.
Summary of The Talbot Odyssey
IT STARTED AS A SIMPLE SPY HUNT.IT BECAME A DESPERATE BATTLE TO SAVE THE WEST.
For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole -- code-named Talbot -- inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York, while in a Long Island suburb a civic demonstration against the Russian mission masks a desperate duel of nerves and wits.
Engineered by Talbot, a shadow world of suspicion and deceit is spilling onto the streets -- leading to a new Soviet weapon and a first-strike war plan threatening the foundations of American government.
For the U.S., time is running out. For Talbot, the time is now.
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