This was quite a gripping espionage story. This isn't one of my normal genres, but the novel was very entertaining. My mother read it before me. She liked it too, but she had one complaint. She didn't like what the author Noel Hynd (who I know) said about Vladimir Putin. She didn't think he was necessarily wrong. However, she felt that he shouldn't have said such bad things about Putin, because Putin might come after him. I tried to explain to my mother that Putin probably has many other enemies on his list ahead of Noel Hynd. Personally, I think Noel's quite safe, but she's still worried.
For her sake, I won't say anything bad about Putin here. Such a nice man, that Putin.
