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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 1337239" data-attributes="member: 892">1) You are likely mistaken.  On the inside back cover of the soft cover version "S.D. Tower is an artist and an internationally published author (under another name) of espionage thrillers who lives in Canada."  This implies that this is Tower's third novel at least, unless those thrillers are short stories.  (Actually, the acknowledgment page's last sentence also implies that there are at least two authors to this book working under one pseudonym - maybe one is the artist and the other the "internationally published author"?).2) Again, Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice is also told from a future-looking-back point of view.  It is just done better.  Hell, Wizard and Glass by Stephen King was done more with more subtlety.  In this book, blatant stating of how things will end is done in every chapter, numerous times.  It was done so often that if someone were telling me the story verbally I would tell the person "Enough already! I know how it ends, tell me how it begins!"  It is the book version of movie trailers that give away the entire plot of the movie.And yes, this book has good points.  But it would have been a much stronger novel if all (better safe than sorry) of the foreshadowing elements had been removed.</blockquote>