I found the prose of this book extremely difficult to follow because of the--overuse of greek words, unfamiliar English words, extremely complex sentences, unabsorbing narrative, too much talking about and not enough showing what your talking about, excess of technical details beyond a layman's interest, sacrifice of genuine suspense for seemingly endless explanations of military subject matter, and much more. By page 65 I trashed the book, worn out by all of the above.