This was one of those novels that shot out of the gate and sprinted all the way to the finish line. There was pretty much no lead-up to the main plot getting started and characters were introduced left and right and sometimes it got a bit confusing. Some of the plot seemed a bit far-fetched a times, then seemed a bit too easy for the protagonists to solve, and then other parts seemed very believable. Certainly not a bad spy-thriller, but one that could have used a bit of work here and there. It did succeed in keeping me entertained and wanting to read the remaining books in the series to find out how things end.