I wanted to like it. From the description, you'd think that this had all the qualities of captivating hard boiled story, but as I progressed, I became more indifferent as it becomes a clumsy comic book. The building metaphors were frustratingly tedious (just read a sample page, and imagine it multiplied by 100 before buying). Almost all the characters were simplistic and two dimensional; females were the worst. They have zero personality and seem to exist only as sexual sycophants, nymphs or nutjobs. I mean I guess a lot of pulp fiction has similar characters but I was expecting more depth. The protagonist creates and miraculously escapes his own conflicts, while nothing wrong with that, its recurrence becomes wearisome. I found little substance and the style fleeting.