I thought that this was a fall-off from the previous books. The James Bond plot twists seemed too contrived and characters like Antonia felt too cardboardish to get a handle on. It felt as though the author had given up. This was particularly noticeable in the structure; I felt as if he had redrafted it too many times.

I don’t mind Blake’s libertarian attitude, but I get bored of homosexuals and drug-taking every other sentence. A bit like an `Alice Through the Looking Glass` version of looney left Eastenders Scriptwriters giving nice people AIDS &c.

Don’t get me wrong, it was *readable*, just not as good as the other books in the series and it makes me less inclined to read anything more of his.

Review published on Goodreads on the 23rd February 2018

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