When I first saw this book, I was very excited by the list of authors who had contributed to this collaborative effort - Jeffrey Deaver, Lee Child, Joseph Finder, P J Parrish etc. However on reading the book I realized that the very different styles of each of these authors became distracting and overwhelmed any semblance of a plot that was present. It seemed like the unexpected twists were introduced into the novellas deliberately by individual authors in a game of showmanship rather than in...