Some friends gave me a Scorpio's voucher for a graduation present, and this was one of the books I bought with it - reasonably randomly selected, based purely on the cover blurb (the wonders of a gift voucher - lets you take risks with new authors you might not otherwise).

Anyway, the risk paid off - this was a great book. I can't really say I enjoyed it (the subject matter is a bit too fraught for that!), but it totally engrossed me - I stayed up way too late the other night reading just one more chapter, and then one more...

Scorpio's had the sequel, so I may have to go spend some real money on that :-)