I really wanted to love this book because the Cold War is a period of history that I enjoy learning about.
The opening chapters of the book are good. They helped set the scene and I was looking forward to learning more about the smuggling operation; no spoilers here, this is in the first chapter. The main characters were ok but seemed to me to get tangled with new characters very quickly and I found myself having to stop and go back to figure out who was who - something I don't usually have a problem with.
Finding the novel quite difficult to get on with and getting bored by what was initially an interesting story I found myself not wanting to pick it up and read it - and that's the point to put the book into the charity shop pile and read something else.
The opening chapters of the book are good. They helped set the scene and I was looking forward to learning more about the smuggling operation; no spoilers here, this is in the first chapter. The main characters were ok but seemed to me to get tangled with new characters very quickly and I found myself having to stop and go back to figure out who was who - something I don't usually have a problem with.
Finding the novel quite difficult to get on with and getting bored by what was initially an interesting story I found myself not wanting to pick it up and read it - and that's the point to put the book into the charity shop pile and read something else.