Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Medicore Effort

This is the first book I've read by Baldacci and it will probably be the last. While the book overall may be good enough to pass the time on a rainy day, the plot and characters are constructed in such a sloppy manner it comes off as very amateurish. The terrorist plot in this work requires so many things to happen just right that it simply blows any "willing suspension of disbelief" out of the water. The entire effort seems to be nothing more than a mechanism to serve up the author's political views in a convenient manner, even down to the fact that Baldacci's terrorists use only sedative-laced darts instead of bullets so as not to actually harm anyone. (What exactly do Al Quaeda, Huzballah and other terrorist organizations have to do to convince the left that maybe, just maybe, they are dangerous?) Anyway, there are an infinite number of better reads than this on the bookshelves; pass this one by unless you just love Baldacci.