Having read several other Paul Erdman books I have to say I was rather disappointed with this one: it's a strange mix of fact and fiction, more or less following a path of true events in world war 2 it just feels cumbersome and slow.

It was business & finance without the intrigue, set in world war 2 without the war for the most part and involved spies with a somewhat disjointed follow through of their activities.

For fiction would recommend Crash of '79, Last Days of America & Panic of '89 over this by far.

For a non-fiction seat of the pants 'story' would recommend Richard Preston's The Hot Zone. ( )