First off, my thanks to Netgallery for the ARC version of this book!

This is another amazing book by Oliver Harris, involving the protagonist Elliot Kane from his previous book A Shadow Intelligence. As everyone can already read the book synopsis I won't bother with a retread except to say that are a lot more layers to the initial investigation plot. The first quarter of the book has what I felt to be a very 'True Detective' vibe surrounding the death of a tech specialist and former MI6 associate on a remote island with the latter half becoming more a spy thriller in the likes of a modern day John Le Carre (RIP).

Harris' writing style, heavily detailed at times in random subjects, takes some getting use to but for fans of the thinking man's spy thriller genre you won't be disappointed. My main reason for rating this 4 stars out of 5 was due to the fact that the level of description about Ascension Island and its history I found to be a bit much at times, however, part of the appeal of Harris' novels is his ability to take his characters to adventures in less traveled places in literature and describe them in remarkable detail.

I highly recommend this book, especially to any fans of Olen Steinhauer or the previous novel A Shadow Intelligence. I hope Harris continues writing more Kane novels and look forward to reading them!