Dean Tambling

Brutal, crisp, the definitive spy novel and deservedly so.

I found myself oscillating between thinking “what a wanker” and “this guy's a genius!” several times per page.

Half self-indulgent, self-congratulating faff, half possibly-life-changing insight.

Odell at one point mentions writing the book in Oakland in 2018, and it's like... “don't worry, we can tell.”

It would have been a vastly superior book if Gibson had spent less time on Twitter and Google Maps as he was writing it.