As a reader of fictional crimes topped off with a thriller edge I have to say that I was looking forward to this. Obviously the authors research was top notch, the characters crisp with a descriptiveness that photographs rather than paints the image into the readers imagination. Nothing prepares the reader for the journey that theyre going to experience within this tale and the darkness of mankinds vile nature more than shows its ugly face throughout the tale as the author shows that money really does talk in the modern world. Cracking thriller and one that I've passed onto the harshest critic I know, my grandfather, who not only is a voracious reader but one that I can virtually guarantee will enjoy this epic.