What I liked most about this book is the fact that it is a female, Letty Davenport, who is the hero along with a group of other women all with skills that are important in shoot-outs and hunting for people.

Letty and Baxter are sent to try and infiltrate a group called Ordinary People who have hacked into the Russian train system and payed havoc. Things don’t go well for them and so Barbara Cartwright joins them and their work moves from Ordinary People to trying to hack the train system again to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine all as a deniable project. This might be a little far-fetched but is a page-turner.

It was all going so well until the very end when Davenport had sex with a man she met at her office and then we get this . . .

This was inappropriate for an initial sexual episode, she thought – or rather, she later thought she thought – and she later thought she tried to say, ‘Let’s not go there yet,’ but remembered herself, dimly saying instead. ‘Ark, ark, ark,’ like Sunny the Seal.

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Oh dear. Ark, ark, ark. 1 star deducted for a really crap sex scene. It carries on but doesn’t get any better with her ‘drumming her heels on his lank white bachelor sheets . . .’