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This error has been compounded by what might be called a failure of verve. Perhaps because the author wants to protect his subject's identity, Darias comes across as remote and unreflective; as for Navarro, McClintick offers the equivalent of a pencil sketch where only an oil painting will do. Envisioned by a gifted novelist, this vivacious woman -- chic, alluring, as dangerous as TNT -- could have been transmuted into a truly memorable character. In short, some true stories are probably better told as fiction than as fact. Swordfish, unfortunately, is one of them.