Incoherent gibberish. Makes no sense at all. There are remnants of a plot, but only just. Just like 'State of Fear', this book is merely a device to unload Chrichton's (very odd) ideas about genetics, law and politics. (He seems to have taken the same path Tom Clancy did in his Jack Ryan books.) Not over-the-top enough to qualify as satire - but almost. It has about as much to do with real-life genetics as 'The Fly' or 'Species' (even if some of the numerous topics covered in the book may well have warranted a closer look by somebody prepared to think about them for more than the day and a half it apparently took to slap together this piece of $&%!.)

Quite mediocre. An interesting, if not necessarily original, idea about implanting a device capable of influencing the brain in a presidential candidate in order to control US politics. The plot, however, is contrived - and doesn't really deliver on the mind-control premise - and the characters are cardboard. The writing is good enough to keep it from being painful, so it makes an overall OK read for travel etc.

Eines der miesesten Bücher die ich je gelesen habe.
"American Psycho" für Wendy-Leserinnen; so stellt sich Lieschen Müller die Extreme eines zynischen und hippen Großstadtlebens - natürlich Berlin - vor. Gewagter Sex mit Augenbinde! Abgebrühte Protagonistin trägt Pistole mit sich rum (und benutzt sie nicht)! Cooles Lustigmachen über unhippe Ossis!
Ganz, ganz schlimm.