This book was disjointed and a bit hard to get through. A lot of detail is provided for characters who fade into the background later. The plot seems to start in one direction and then turns in another. I guess that is meant to signify the world of spies, but I thought is was poor writing. Similarly, a couple of characters have inconsistent personalities and behavior. There seemed to be no reason for that. Ultimately, the book came across as contrived and not well constructed. It doesn't make sense, for example, that the spies translating Anabel and Tommy can't understand them speaking Russian, because the person Anabel and Tommy are about to meet only speaks Russian. Why would they assign someone who could not speak Russian to follow them? It's a bit hard to believe that rendition involves such complicated efforts. I think they just grab people off the street. Rendition obviously involves intelligence, but not this kind of elaborate plot.