Yet another wonderful addition to the exceptional Spoils of War series. Quincy Kane is a brilliantly depicted character and flawed hero and Hurley paints a vivid picture of an America caught with its pants down by the Japanese attack on Peal Harbour and the panic, plotting and reorganisation that followed.

I am in awe of Graham Hurley and how he manages to come up with such quality so frequently and cover so broad a range of subjects.

A part of me still mourns the end of his magnificent police procedurals featuring Faraday, Winter and Suttle but times move on and we should just be grateful that Graham Hurley is still writing such exciting, well researched and high quality novels.