Incredibly dull, incredibly boring. Slathered with footnotes and purported printouts of "official" documents which are equally boring. I like James Bond and enjoyed the Fleming series. This is nothing like Fleming's writings. Very little action, very little interaction, a fair amount of introspection, much of it about fairly dull and boring non-events. Very little romance, and most of it introspection and non-romantic. Glad I got it from the library rather than spending money on it.