I kept feeling like I’d read the book before… but I don’t remember reading it. A decent premise, but I’m growing more and more tired of books that have the hero averting the really bad thing. I’m more interested in the author exploring the results after the really bad thing has happened.

Plot is thinner than thin. Hundreds of pages and nothing happens except we get a tour of Yemen and page after page of insufferable narrative. It's as if Mr DeMille had a quota of smart-ass internal dialog per page that he had to fill. If you cut out half of it, the book would shorten by 20% and still be just as boring.

I'm ashamed I wasted as much time on this one as I did. Avoid.