Grabbed this because it looked as though it might play in the realm of pursuit novels, and that's not wildly wrong--though the person doing the pursuing here is the main character. It's mostly a novel about a hypercompetent person with a specific set of skills being a hypercompetent badass. A little interlude near the end when things are explicated for the final couple of scenes. Interesting and sometimes amusing, but the main is so hypercompetent, especially compared to most of the thug-types he runs up against, that there's really not a lot of tension; part of that's the borderline-flat affect of the prose, which ends up on the far side of, say, Thomas Perry's kinda idiosyncratic prosaicness. Pretty decent, maybe I'll look for more by the author.
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