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| The idea that disability compensation is some kind of income security or welfare program cheapens the service and sacrifice of disabled veterans. A few unfortunate subplots--the predictable romantic triangle, the brief introduction and subsequent death of young leukemia patient Samantha--are more formula than innovation, and the epilogue's sudden about-face toward optimism cheapens the anguish of previous chapters. Booth never reduces his plot or his characters to the formula that cheapens so much contemporary crime fiction. |
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