Once readers get to chapter 13 the storyline takes off. First you must read through the ego tripping description of Zachary Berman's thoughts that he is so great, plus all the males "drooling" over Pia Grazdani (such a time consuming waste, in my opinion). Here's a great quote by Pia Grazdani about Zachary Berman: "... he was a dangerous snake in the grass." LOL! You will learn many important facts from this storyline and the central characters. If you enjoy reading about paranoid people with outlandish-sounding conspiracy theories plus the sinister, this novel is sure to intrigue you.

Least favourite by this author. Ending was disappointing, no clear conclusion to what happened to certain characters.

This book felt incomplete to me. Even if it is part of an ongoing set there seemed to me to be too many unappealing characters and unexplored subplots in this book.

I stopped before the end of the first chapter. I will try it again after I get my PhD in Microbiology. Too many words and concepts I didn't understand.

A lot of filler and far-fetched dialogue. The main character, Pia, is supposed to be very bright, yet the author has her do and say stupid things. For these reasons, I found a lot of the book annoying, but the basic plot was interesting enough to keep me reading.

Death Benefit repeat, a little stale - Pia curious, Pia beloved by obsessed suitor, Pia in trouble again, George tries to rescue, enter daddy Burim and Pia's "Albanian family"... If Cook turns his next book into "Taken" ala the Liam Neeson movie, I may have to take him off my Preferred Author List.