Two Envelopes And A Phone’s Reviews > Miro > Status Update

A decent read - and I like the Canadian connection (weird to think of the scenes taking place in a Toronto the year I was born…the city would look completely different!). But overall, this has been a rather average spy novel. Pace is acceptable, style is strained and trying too hard.

Written in a spiky, maybe even prickly, style - but I’m getting used to it, as I digest the opening murder, and rough stuff done by Miro to get some info out of someone who seems to know too much, too early. I spotted this at a Used bookstore, and remembered it was a book mentioned in a Crime & Mystery reading guide - just some section that listed award winners and nominees. This was an MWA nominee, now forgotten.