A gripping read!

• Good to have friends: Here's a comment from a very old mate, who I am going to keep anonymous. He emails from the States:
  
   Loved the book!
  I read it in one sitting yesterday - a flight from Phoenix to Chicago helped make the time, and I was gripped from start to finish. Delightful that its is set in your various haunts (with even a few digs at the Scots and the Brits.)