I was assured that this was a good, exciting book and it is. The author's voice of this book and that of the previous Colter Shaw works is remarkably different. Perhaps this is due to the fact that Deaver and Shaw focus on only one case. Shaw seems more human in this book rather than a mere walking, talking skill set.

Turns out only Shaw and Hannah are who they appear to be. I've not come across such ambiguous characters since James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux.

Deaver exploits his talent for entangled skeins of plots and his characters' abilities to avoid / survive death or dismemberment, always at the of the chapters. Should I ever have the misfortune of being shot, I hope I handle it with as much aplomb as Alli.