I got totally lost in the plot of this book I must admit. There was too much political manoeuvring and after a while I couldn't follow which piece is doing what on the chess table - even though I read the first book and was supposed to have a vague idea of the characters and their motives.

Baxter sounds like a decent chap and his character is strong, well developed. I was really looking forward to seeing how his relationship with Ekaterina was coming along but I felt disappointed.

I am not enough of a strategist to appreciate the complexity of this book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sapere Books for an Advance Reading Copy.

DNF
I haven't read the first book in this series and so I was just constantly confused by all the allusions to events from book one that never actually explained what really happened. It made reading this a chore and I just gave up.