Not being a regular reader of thrillers of any type (though I do feel as though this genre is missing from my reading selection), I wasn’t sure what I was going to get with this, especially as this is the third in a series that I have yet to read the first two of.
Knowing that the book was written by the same person who created The Coldest City (yes the graphic novel that inspired Atomic Blonde) I felt more confident I was going to get something good, and I wasn’t wrong.
This novel is slick, fast-paced, and filled with excitement. It was both terrifying and action-packed at the same time. Terrifying because it is (as the author comments in the notes), something that ‘features many things that exist or are only a short hop away’. Deep fakes, fake news, online hate, these are things we have seen and this just takes those to the next level.
Brigitte Sharp is a strong character with a complicated personal life, especially the relationship she has with her family. There are many things that I get the feeling I would have understood better had I read the previous two books in the series, but seeing that even in the midst of danger she puts concern for her family at the forefront (perhaps because of these past events) just makes her more likeable.
Definitely the sort of book for people who love Ludlum’s Bourne or Le Carré’s Smiley.
