My husband and I were reading this together and enjoying it, although the plot is painfully trite. I am tiring of the hero who is drawn into international intrigues because his better looking and more beloved other brother is either killed, beaten comatose, kidnapped, executed by terrorists, held captive by the mob, taken prisoner by a rogue government agency,or a secret Nazi, in a plot that worked fine in The Marathon Man and the next hundred times it was used, but is getting a bit shop worn. However, good pacing, nicely done action scenes, better than average writing and sex that actually fits neatly into the plot greatly enhanced the reading experience, that is, up to the end. The end is a disaster. My advice to the reader is to stop once the brothers are reunited and read no further. Make up and ending you like, something that fits the storyline, and close your Kindle,because Frey's ending is an absolute disaster.It is worse than the matter of a few loose ends and unresolved issues. It is as if a phantom word processor program cut out the ending and pasted something in from an unrelated manuscript. To me, it was a total turn off. I wondered why we had wasted our evening reading when we could have experienced something equally disappointing on the tube, like Liz and Dick. I have enjoyed Frey in the past, but doubt that I will risk another, and if he is planning a series based on this beginning, I hope he rethinks that decision and starts fresh.