Six years, Crowl! And Dan Brown famously claims a rigorous writing routine that starts at 4.00am five days a week. To me, this book reads as though it was written in a rush, at the last minute against a contract deadline. It comes over like one of those NaNoWriMo (write a novel in a month) challenges for developing, wannabe authors. I'm sure editorial intervention was confined to a simple line edit to correct spelling and grammar on the fly. There was certainly no deep editorial input (unless the assigned editor was a dunce) and six years writing space should allow plenty time for that and several revisions. Neil
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