A disclaimer for this book...to fully enjoy it, you really need to read Term Limits and Transfer of Power first. There are a LOT of characters here that were in the previous two books. Trying to digest all of them at the same time might be a little rough.I'm surprised at the amount of negative reviews this has received. I actually enjoyed this book more than Transfer of Power or Term Limits. I had planned on making it through the entire Flynn/Rapp series anyway, so the fact that the ending is incomplete is no biggie for me.