Plum Island by Nelson DeMille. It's about 450 pp., and I read every page because I wanted to see how bad it could get. Answer: very, very bad: awful storytelling, a main character/narrator you want to punch in the teeth, a plot the most empathetic person on earth couldn't care less about, and absolutely awful, awful prose. Definitely worth checking out if you'd like to see how bad American fiction can get.
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