The story really went nowhere as other reviewers have noted.But what annoyed me most was the historical inaccuracies. For these novels to work you need to get the details right and here the authors conspicuously failed. A few instances:- There is no institution known as the "Royal Army" - constantly referred to- The Royal Air Force does not have captains, they have their own ranks, just as the navy does- Ireland was independent at the time of WW2 (well, most of it) and sufficiently so to send a message of condolence to the German Embassy upon Herr Hitler's deathI don't know enough about aircraft to know whether they of the details right but based on the above I have little confidence. Tom Clancy can't write either, but he doesn't take himself as seriously as these two obviously do and he does get the details right.