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[close] I really enjoyed the previous two books, The Yard and Black Country. While the idea behind the story line was good and even intriguing...this book just didn't pull it together. Started out with a mysterious prisoner that was receiving someone's own ideas of punishment for his crimes and then went to a highly thought out prison break to the absurd and generally impossible or at least improbable. The characters that had done such a great job investigating and bringing the culprit to justice in the first two books somehow just didn't get the memo to show up in this one. When they made their appearances you would have been hard put to recognize them. I found the book bordering on just plain silly. I will try book #4 hoping that this was just a fluke on the part of what has up to this point... been a very good writer.