European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Books Titan Doest quite live up to its title author Fred Mustard Stewart and his latest Effort puerile just right for by Allen Cowan staff writer can Nick Fleming move into Hollywood and become the Mogul of the movies can Diana rams child find truth and happiness in the harem of Kemal the father of modern Day Turkey what secret made Edwina Thorax the hottest new Star in Hollywood Why was she hanging around with leading Man Rod who was eventually killed by an unknown turkish Assassin whose child did she Bear after her husband encouraged her to have an affair with another Man the answer to these and Many is who cares and that sums up Fred Mustard std arts latest the its a waste of plus a lot of dead that Doest mean it wont be a Best stewarts previous Ellis want As bad As this but it was and it was a literary Isle vision picked it up for a blockbuster that probably what will happen to the first the then the which is what Stewart might have had in mind when he wrote the Story is the writing is and it All seems so just right for for those who want to the Titan is another one of those epics that spans decades and its a winds of War Type novel for the soap opera a five kleenex Job if there Ever was the Story opens with the Nick As a it quickly moves to his adult and his tempestuous Romance with the Green eyed Diana but rams child is not Good enough for the daughter of impoverished and his parents put her off the relationship is sabotaged and they scarred they go their separate but every Good Reader knows there no to meet under seductive Stewart Doest Fleming becomes a munitions a breeder of death and and a that the foundation of his his his he can get guns and ammunition to anyone in the for a he deals with russian aristocrats before the Ataturk and he spies for Bill who created the Hes captured by the revolutionaries and imprisoned in a concentration he has a nazi mistress and Hobnob with propaganda minister Joseph she traipse around ends up in Ataturk concubine and is mutilated by him in return for her dramatic surgery life threatening operations that restore her she becomes an International Power to everyone her path crosses the flames vows Romance end of Call begin go to the does this Book have any redeeming social value in it the chapters on and its birth As a Independent Are Kemal Ataturk was one of those charismatic leaders who came along at the right time in his country needed a rallying a and he fit the Ataturk had the political acumen and boldness to Lead his country into the 20th like other great he did what had to be and in the process blazed his Way into Stewart has done his Homework in his descriptions of turkeys birth and Ataturk those sections Are Worth but they cannot overcome the fatal flaws of the other 450 August stripes Magazine 17