Title: Very Good, Not Great
Product review: I picked this up hoping it would be a good spy novel, and it was. Wilson spends plenty of time developing his characters, and you can feel connected to them throughout the tale.The story starts during The Blitz in London and is broken into three parts, each taking place roughly 25 years apart, although nearly all the action takes place in the first two parts.The plot is rather intricate, and if you'll have to pay attention if you want to have any idea who's on what side by the end, but it's basically a real-world, as opposed to super-hero, spy story.Wilson's writing style sometimes bogs down, particularly when describing places and their names as characters move about. If I was from Lisbon I probably would have enjoyed the turn-by-turn directions from street to street, but since I'm not it became somewhat tedious. Also, characters occasionally speak languages other than English without translation.All in, a good story with plausible characters that keeps you entertained.
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