Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Overly wordy and the ending made no sense...

Ok, I can stand a wordy "new" writer but this book is over the top sometimes especially the first 150 pages. I agree with many of the other observations of this book and the whole Indian legend woven within the story seemed out of place, until you find out the killers motivations. Not really sure he chose "now" to act though as that's never really explained other than a tacked on last few chapters. I think some editor read the book and told the author that he never really explained why the first person was killed so go back and fix that...and he did...with some way out there explanation. I really wanted to like this book as I love spy/thriller types of books, but this one was a "C" as best. I'll probably read the next in the series to see if story telling improves, but I won't be buying the third book until after I've read the second one, that's for sure.