Mark Sullivan (AnonymeInc@webtv.net)
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 23:38:28 -0400 (EDT)
Mario wrote:
<<....and _The Anderson Tapes_ by Sanders. I recalled a
passable suspense movie of the same name, and the blurbs
looked enticing. Alas, the book was indigestible and poorly
written, though the central idea was very good.>>
That was exactly my take on the book when I read it many
years ago: great idea, poor realization and execution. I
never read another Sanders, figuring if he couldn't hold my
interest with such a great premise, he was never going
to.
But that premise. There was such potential to work with the
paranoia of total surveillance, a somewhat novel idea at the
time, or expose the territorialism of various law enforcement
agencies, tweaking them for holding every little piece of the
plan for an upcoming crime among them, but, since none of the
bureaucracies would share, the various pieces were never put
together. Has anyone done this idea justice since? If so, I'd
like to read it.
Mark
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