Interesting, but it only really scratched the surface of each individual and really could have been a little more in-depth. There was also an occasional annoying, to me at least, inaccuracy in some facts.

I picked up this book because I wanted a brief overview of cases and to guide me into which ones interested me and where to research further. Brief is the defining word of this book. While it's to be expected that a book covering 100 criminals can't take the time to deeply cover each case, Durden-Smith doesn't frame each case well and doesn't explain time, place, or players thoroughly. There is no sense of organisation to how each case is placed within their country category. It would have been much easier to make my way through if they were in chronological order, particularly since some criminals overlap.

As much as some of the information here was quite interesting, I found the writing very jarring. The constant use of starting a sentence with "For" really irritated me towards the end. It was an unnecessary use and could have easily been removed without losing any meaning.