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gervase_fenSo-so debut thriller which feels a bit undernourished compared with Mick Herron's "London Rules". I enjoyed the tradecraft (how to avoid e-mail interception, how to break into the Houses of Parliament). Unfortunately I didn't buy in to the action finale in a London landmark (just as I didn't when I read a similar scene in Daniel Cole's "Ragdoll". ) Vine is not an interesting enough protagonist to carry a series, which seems to be the intention here. An extra star for having the hero do some old fashioned sleuthing in the written archives of the intelligence services, but overall this didn't deliver on the set-up.
