An intersting combination of industrial espionage, murder and the darker
working of government policies which uses real rather than imaginary firms.
I assume that the basis for the story at the local level is invented though the
high-powered scheming may well be a feasible interpretation of what may
have happened. There is a steady pace throughout even during what are
necessary explanatory or background passages and most of the leading
players well described though many of the less ones are but ciphers - as it
should be. It certainly kept my attention with the result that I read the book
somewhat more rapidly than usual.