With his best work being his first book, The Wasp Factory, this is still a good old ripping yarn of modern derring do. Staple stuff from Iain Banks' fiction books.
What is amazing is clearly how much research has gone into a book of only 275 pages. Something Banks clearly takes seriously (who else knew that the normal timing of waves to hit the shore is seven or eight a minute?) This reviewer is also struggling to think of any other novel that can smoothly transfer between Panama and Japan, and this is a welcome edition to his portfolio of work. What Banks sometimes struggles with is coming up with an ending that is to the same standard as the rest of the book.
Shocking in all the right places and well recommended reading. This book gets 3/5
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