While I generally enjoy spy thrillers when watching a TV series or movie ... it's not one of my usual genres for reading. With a one-month KU membership, I thought I'd try to branch out a bit. This was read and listen, and I went primarily with audio, although I did need to refer to the text ... so many characters, I got a little lost! I literally had to take some notes. Sometimes with names, I struggle to remember, and just recall "it started with A" or a vowel, which wasn't as helpful here as we had Aldreich, Edgar Augustin, Ambassador Eichberg, Elias and Amirouch. 

Caspian was the MC ... ish. Really, it felt like Edgar got about as much POV time (all 3rd person/past tense). He is a assassin/spy, like Caspian, but different bosses (same target though). While I pushed through and finished, I still don't know that I'm 100% on who worked with/for who and what exactly happened. Lots of cross-over connections.

While the blurb mentions a Mr. and Mrs. Smith feel ... that's NOT 90% of the book. That only comes into play the last little bit.  No headers in the Table of Contents (just the basic chronological chapter listing). Locations were given at the start of each chapter (I thought POV would have been more helpful). Zermatt/Switzerland is where the first nine chapters take place, switching focus between Caspian, Edgar & Eichberg (& Aldreich as the target). Chapter 10 shifts to New York, and Liesel (who has only been referenced as Caspian's girlfriend thus far) and Ch11 is back to Switzerland, Ch12 New York, Ch13/14 Switzerland, Ch 15 New York.   It was a while before the two storylines combined. 

This seemed very ... "man written" (I know that's a stereotype that isn't really true) ... just all action, fact, not much descriptive language. I felt disconnected the entire time. Never really pulled in, didn't care about the characters or what was happening. 

So ... eh ... I didn't love it, I won't be continuing on with the series. 

Profanity x22