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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN num: 9780449227428
ISBN number: 0449227421
Label: Fawcett
Manufacturer: Fawcett
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 480
Printing Date: June 29, 1997
Publishing house: Fawcett
Release Date: June 29, 1997
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Through her research on twins and the genetic components of aggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrami makes a startling discovery. Using a restricted FBI database, she finds two young men who appear to be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis: a convicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers, in hospitals hundreds of miles apart.
As Ferrami delves into their backgrounds, she unwittingly locks horns with some of the most powerful forces in America, including the university where she works, The New York Times, even the Pentagon.
What secret has Ferrami uncovered? Can she trust her boss and mentor, or must she put her life in the hands of Steve Logan, the twin she finds herself falling in love with--even though he's surrounded by intrigue and suspicion? But one thing is certain: There are those who will stop at nothing to keep their chilling conspiracy in the shadows. . . .
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Identical twins have been the storyteller's friend since Roman times. Master-scribbler Ken Follett does the arrangement one better in his latest yarn, The Third Twin. The heroine, Jeannie Ferrami, is a young professor at Jones Falls University (JFU)(think Johns Hopkins) who is investigating the balance of nature versus nurture in criminality. Driven by a secret from her past, Dr. Ferrami is overjoyed to find that a straight-arrow law student at JFU has an identical twin (raised separately) who is a convicted rapist. She is not overjoyed, however, when that man is arrested for raping her best friend. Surely Mr. Perfect couldn't be guilty--enter the evil masterminds, three Nixon-era compadres who have been toiling for decades to make America safe for racial purity. It's bad enough that one of the conspirators is Dr. Ferrami's boss, but another is eyeing the Oval Office. The young professor has stumbled onto a secret that could ruin them all, and it's only a matter of pages before bad things start to happen to the pair. The shortest distance between two points is a Follett plot. Look elsewhere for subtlety; entertainment, we got.
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KEN FOLLETT IS WITHOUT A DOUBT ONE OF THE BEST AUTHORS AROUND. BOOKS LIKE "THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH, EYE OR THE NEEDLE, ETC..." ARE CLASSIC, BUT HIS RECENT STUFF, THE LAST 3 BOOKS ARE CERTAINLY MORE HOLLYWOODISH. THE PLOTS ARE LIGHTER, BUT THE BOOKS ARE FUN AND ENJOYABLE. IT ALMOST SEEMS THAT FOLLETT HAS TOTALLY CHANGED HIS WRITING STYLE IN THE PAST FEW YEARS. ALL IN ALL, I ALWAYS ENJOY HIS BOOKS, MAINLY BECAUSE I LOVE THE WAY HE WRITES. THE THIRD TWIN, WAS SOMEWHAT PREDICTABLE, FAST MOVING, AND A GOOD READ
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In my opinion, this was one of Ken Follet's best books. Unfortunately, the title of the book gives away the whole story. Why, oh why, would you put a spoiler in the title. Strange things are happening. The lead character can't figure out why this guy is friendly and interested in her romantically one minute and then the subsequent time he comes over he acts psycho. Oh wait, the third twin...
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I thought the idea of genetic experimentation on humans by corporations and/or government made a great central idea for a thriller. I also liked the idea of a strong female protagonist who stumbles upon the experimentaion and deals with the greedy, arrogant businessmen who want to cover it all up at all cost. I also liked having an evil clone as a secondary antagonist. But the characters weren't particularly well rounded, and instead on focusing on the central idea - genetic experimentation on humans by unethical and immoral people or even the monster clone and his miserable evil ways, the story veered off into an unlikely and very weak romance between one of the good clones and the protagonist. The scenes where the bad clone(s) act bad are the best and most exciting parts.
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this is a great book. i read it twice. it keeps you guessing at every turn.
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I was sad to see the negative reviews aimed at this book because of the right-wing politics of the bad guys. The actual aims and accomplishments of the trio go far beyond currently accepted politics. For instance, the bad guys protect and encourage a person given to multiple rapes and assaults, and the presidential candidate supports forced sterilization of welfare recipients.
If you can deal with that then you can enjoy a good Follett thriller. The bad guys are hoping that a takeover of the gene manipulation company that they own will make them $60 million each. For one, that will finance his run for president and for the others, riches far beyond anything they're used to. Unfortunately, the company has a well-hidden secret in its past that could torpedo the deal.
Against the partners there is only Jeannie, who is unaware of the secret and is a junior lecturer studying identical twins raised apart. The announcement of the takeover is due in a week, and one of the bad guys at the beginning of the book wonders if the secret will ever be discovered in time to stop the takeover. Like him, I felt that there simply wasn't time for this to happen - the odds seemed too great.
Add to this that one of the bad guys runs the department that Jeannie works in, and that another important person is wrongly arrested, and things look hopeless.
However, this is where Follett's skill in plotting comes in. I find that his best thrillers (like Jackdaws) work with a short time period, like a week or a day. This book is no different and plot twists affect the book every few pages, it seems.
It's pretty much impossible to go on without revealing some of the plot, so I'll stop here and recommend that you read this book. As someone who holds views similar to Ken Follett's (supporting the British Labour Party when I lived there) I had to look up his personal details on his web site to discover what his political views were. They're certainly not obvious from this book, which has a cast of many highly-believable characters, both good and bad.
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