Old fashioned spy novel

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Oh dear it’s not often I can’t finish a book. I struggled over the first fifty pages then I thought it improved and my hopes raised that it would be enjoyable. Unfortunately not!
I got half way through before I gave up. The style of writing resembles the spy novels of the past but the plot also jumps around with extremely short chapters making it an uncomfortable read. Perhaps the author tried to make to plot too clever by tying in too many coincidences and the past reliving itself. The hero Joe is a MI6 spy and a bit of a wide boy rogue but his character seems incomplete and the reader is not invested in finding out what happens to him and others he knew in 1948.
Quite disappointed as I dislike not finishing what I started.