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Book Review By J. Ellsworth
The Eleventh Commandment by Jeffrey Archer

Assassian Connor Fritzgerald works under the umbrella of the CIA. His family and friends don't know of his double life, so when days before he's due to retire he goes on "One Last Business Trip" which goes wrong, his family is inadvertantly thrown into questioning what he really does do for a living. At the same time, Connor is being sent on a bogus mission, set up by the director of the CIA, presumably with the permission of the White House. In actually, it's a ploy to eliminate Connor, who has, in the Director's view, become a threat to her job.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story:
Spying/Terrorism Thriller Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10 %
Who's the terrorist enemy here?

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 40's-50's
Ethnicity/Race

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Profession/status:
Motive of antagonist - power
The antagonists are: - FBI/CIA
How sensitive is this character?
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Mid-Atlantic states
Europe Yes
European country: - Russia

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references
Unusual forms of death - perforation--bullets
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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