Gripping and consistently surprising ... Hemming’s narrative combines the in-depth historical research he has brought to his previous books with a mounting sense of danger and intrigue.
Enthralling ... Hemming artfully unspools this complex tale with the skill of a suspense novelist ... Hemming’s greatest strength is his ability to take the reader inside the spies’ tradecraft.
I was generally impressed by the style of Hemming’s book, which is written with novelistic verve. In places, however, he overdoes it ... Hemming presents himself as an authority on the Irish psyche, but he gets important details wrong ... These may seem overly picky criticisms of a well-written and well-researched book, but they alert the knowing reader to Hemming not quite having the pulse of the place.
