A thrilling read, it's a <b>dazzlingly clever, edgy, suspenseful</b> book
Scotland on Sunday
<b>Hugely entertaining</b>
Daily Telegraph
Banks's clever, tense book gives a good idea of where fiction might usefully go with this material. Staying away from the media described events at Ground Zero, he impressively details the social aftermath in London: paranoia on underground trains and in high buildings, suspicion of foreigners, a delirious new edge to political argument and sexual encounters
- Mark Lawson, Guardian
A Buchanesque adventure yarn set in twenty-first-century London
The Times