I am now more confused than ever about what sort of order (if any) Tom Grace's series is meant to go in. Certainly, they don't seem to have been published in anything vaguely resembling chronological order. That said...
It's brilliant. Quite similar to the Ben Hope series (temporarily forgotten author's name, but I've reviewed loads of them), though with more of a science/technology base rather than a more historical one. Lots of action, and a decent plot that's sufficient to support it without it seeming like gratuitous violence/action. There's not, perhaps, much character development in this book, but the supporting characters are well evoked, some familiar faces (Grin) return, and Nolan Kilkenny (the hero, if that's not too old-fashioned a word to use to describe him :) ) is convincing enough. There's just not a lot of inter-character relationship going on, but I guess that's somewhat inevitable if you want to have space for a tight, gripping thriller.
I have to recommend it. Don't bother reading the series in any order, since it hasn't been published, as far as I can tell, in any real order, but do read them whenever you spot 'em. Great fun, and I certainly hope there's more. At the moment, my mental classification scheme puts Tom Grace as: brilliant writer of small number of thrillers, and he fits next to Scott Mariani (Ben Hope series, just remembered!) and James Twinning (the ones about the ex-thief). I'd like to see more, from all those authors in fact, and most definitely from Tom Grace :)
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