Perhaps if this book had been edited a bit better, I'd have liked it more, but as it is, I'm glad it's finished. I skip-read the last 50 pages - the 'explanation' which took forever - and found the last page ghastly. OK, it's easy enough to read and there are some neat end-of-chapter twists but the characters are one-dimensional, if not downright unbelievable. Some of the dialogue would suit a third-rate soap and I became very, very irked by his use of gratuitous bad language. Quite how classy writers like Peter Robinson and Robert Crais can speak so highly of it is beyond me. Sorry!