I found this book very very difficult to read!! However I do not think that this is the author being a bad writter but more that this book is not my usual cup of tea. It took me a long time to read it as I didn't really get into it. However I did like the time period used and the mixture of history and thriller. It was a very long book and it felt long due to not really enjoying it. I would recommend this book to those who enjoy this type of genre and have a long time to soend reading it! The wording was interesting and the story line was interesting!! I would not read this again and I am not really interested in reading any other books by this author unfortunately. Yet again I must say this is due to my own tastes not the authors talent.