The Rook, au service surnaturel de sa majesté

Just a great fun read that I whizzed through. A secret semi-supernatural spy agency, an amnesiac paper-shuffler turned superhero, weird mutanated allies and foes - what's not to like? And despite being a re-read it hadn't lost it's moments of suspense and surprise.
Nice to read a female protagonist written by a man that isn't a super-sexy one-dimensional fantasy and actually appears to be quite realistic and believable (in an albiet bizarre parallel version of our world).
I had only one gripe, and it's a petty little thing that nags at my teeth again and again when reading fiction set in the UK and written from the point of view of an English person.... American spelling!! Taylor would use those superfluous Us, double consonants and Ss instead of Zs (that's “zeds”