Being brutally honest here, this was not a book for me. A few chapters in and I was totally confused, there were so many characters introduced- one after another- I couldn't possibly see how they could all be relevant to the narrative.
Basically it's the story of a man who lost his phone. It was picked from his pocket in a crowded railway station. The man was a lawyer and the phone contained sensitive material in the case his company was handling, a big case between two major banks. Firstly you've got to ask yourself, would any good lawyer transfer such work to a device that leaves the office? I would sack any that did if I ran a law firm.
The head of the firm then bypasses the in house detective and hires a firm of fixers.... yet more characters. While they're blagging their way round the city, commiting fraud while posing as cops, FBI agents, etc, there's a ransom demand. Pay up or the papers go public.
Add to them all the hands the phone passes through, Chinese street gangs, Russian mob, a Jewish jeweller. To be honest, after the third lot I'd given up caring.
Sorry and all that, but I just skimmed the rest until I fell asleep.
Basically it's the story of a man who lost his phone. It was picked from his pocket in a crowded railway station. The man was a lawyer and the phone contained sensitive material in the case his company was handling, a big case between two major banks. Firstly you've got to ask yourself, would any good lawyer transfer such work to a device that leaves the office? I would sack any that did if I ran a law firm.
The head of the firm then bypasses the in house detective and hires a firm of fixers.... yet more characters. While they're blagging their way round the city, commiting fraud while posing as cops, FBI agents, etc, there's a ransom demand. Pay up or the papers go public.
Add to them all the hands the phone passes through, Chinese street gangs, Russian mob, a Jewish jeweller. To be honest, after the third lot I'd given up caring.
Sorry and all that, but I just skimmed the rest until I fell asleep.