Honey kept telling me that I had to read this book, that I would like it. In a way I did and in other ways I didn't. The story kept you going because you wanted to find out the details of what was really going on and you wanted to find out who the killer was. When there are many suspects and nothing specifically pointing to a particular one, you may end up getting yourself killed.

This book was like that. It wasn't a fast read for me until I was halfway through and I wanted to get through it so I could know who killed her and why and who was she really. Martin is a good writer from what I read in this book, he provided sketches of two of the ships in the book as well, which helps when going through the motions with the inspector.

Americans and Russians working together is something that happens, the joint venture was good for both sides and just because of that you knew someone had to screw it all up. Someone wanted to play spy, another was a killer, some were drug smugglers. You didn't know who was reporting to the KGB, you didn't know who was going to support the inspector.

All in all, it may have taken me a bit of time to get into the book, but it was definitely worth the sit down.