Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: pass this up...

This was my first Baldacci audiobook. It seems I picked poorly. I agree with the other reviews that bring up the unbeliveability of the plot, but that was not the worst thing about this book. There were way too many conversations had by characters that were incongruous. When you find yourself saying, "why are these guys talking about this, it makes no sense", then there is trouble. Most of these conversations were to bring background (and i guess Baldacci was going for depth in his characters) but were just boring. Why would the director of a national spy agency and his right hand man have a conversation about "hey, remember when we had all this trouble getting all the spy databases together?" It's like they are reminiscing about old times in a part of the story when they should be talking seriously. blah blah blah. One could be overlooked, but there are many conversations in this story that could be left out and the book would be better. Maybe the abridged version is better :)