Well, this took a shitload longer to read than it should have. While the plot was just as fantastical and huge and messy and destructive as his other books, I think this was his first. As a result, the book got too bogged down in technical detail, and the action didn’t flow. There were the big explosive set-pieces like the nuclear attack on the aircraft carrier, and the destruction of the Iranian subs in port, but the bits in between were a bit too drawn out. Most of the characters were like cardboard cutouts of real people, although Arnold Morgan starts to take shape. This certainly never sets out to be high literature, and so character development is minimal. A harder read than it should have been, but at least I know this guy gets better.