While the scope of this story became clear late in the narrative, I really liked the direction Baldacci took the series with this novel. He does a nice job of connecting a not-so-typical-detective crime series to wider contemporary world fears. He's done this with contemporary issues previously in this series, but I particularly liked this one as this seems completely plausible.

I wish we'd had more Jamison, but I do like Melvin Mars, and he was fantastic in this story.

Also, I was pleased that the person I suspected of being the mole was not the mole. Yeah!