Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Disjointed Stinker -- Gets a 9 on the Sominex scale

This is my last Op-Center purchase. They have slid downhill since the first, and Balance of Power is by far the worst technothriller I've ever attempted to read. The cast is large and hard to follow since there appear to be numerous political groups at work to bring down the Spanish government. For all of that, there is the infuriating trademark conference between Op-Center regulars that drones on and on trying to set up and explain the plot and the political premise and background. These conference meetings between protagonist Paul Hood and his staff have a very strong preachy tone about them of which (I infer) it seems the authors wish the reader to become aware of these horrible socio-political injustices that make up the plot, as if they exist. I stopped trying to fathom this book on page 269 and literally threw it away.