I really wanted to like this... but really didn't. I listened to it on audio and was drawn to it given Elijah Wood's participation and I am a fan of the genre (and a recent reader of my first Alex Cross book). But I just couldn't get engaged with this book. I hadn't read the first 2 but I don't think that was the issue as the story does include enough backstory that you aren't lost about the characters or where they are in the story arc...