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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
I absolutely could not put this book down. I'd read another of Pears' books, An Instance of the Fingerpost, and I was hoping for the same kind of multi-level intricate narrative, and this delivered in spades and then some. I enjoyed it immeasurably more than An Instance of the Fingerpost.
To say it's a thriller about financial espionage does it an injustice, because it is very much more than that. In fact, the financial side of things is almost just window-dressing, which is an odd thing to say when it forms such a major part of the book.
I don't want to say too much more, because this is the kind of book you do not wanted to be spoiled for - let's just say, when I found out near the end what this book was really about and how all the various threads came together, it knocked me sideways, because I no way saw it coming.
To say it's a thriller about financial espionage does it an injustice, because it is very much more than that. In fact, the financial side of things is almost just window-dressing, which is an odd thing to say when it forms such a major part of the book.
I don't want to say too much more, because this is the kind of book you do not wanted to be spoiled for - let's just say, when I found out near the end what this book was really about and how all the various threads came together, it knocked me sideways, because I no way saw it coming.
DNF - forced myself to read this for several weeks after I stopped enjoying it, and now it's just been languishing on my shelf since last summer. Time to pass it on to someone else.
Nicely written, interesting and intriguing, let down by a ridiculous underlying premise/coincidence that pretty much spoiled it for me.
Oh, why can't there be a 4 1/2 star option? While this book isn't quite as good as An Instance of the Fingerpost, it's still pretty freaking great. I'm actually glad I read the last three-quarters of this book relatively fast, or else I would have forgotten some of those incidental details near the front of the book that got tied up so beautifully in the end.