If you have 5 hours of time to give away with no good return, this is the book for you!
Though the story starts off with quite the bang, it fizzles from there. Hours are spent introducing a series of characters and parallel stories that have absolutely no resolve in this book. And the repetitive theme of the main characters female counterpart, Banks, constantly berating him was overbearing.
Hopefully a great prelude to the book series, where all of the scenes setting is done here.