Well Desmedt literally blew me away, combining a bit of classic cold war history, mystery,scientific mystery and the feel of a technothriller into a book i literally read in one sit through...In a day and age where every other sci fi novel is rooted in bull@#$@ plot devices and literally is fantasy desmedt managed to take an ACTUAL theory about actual events and make it no less fantastic then a space opera. While many novels have multiple plot lines that intertwine usually some are weak and as a result your read through a chaoter just to get to another charcters POV, here every chapter change i felt pissed that i'd have to wait for a continual of this line while i felt the glee of another plotline's return, can't wait to read his next novel Dualism.Thanks for restoring my faith in current day sci fi !