huh. So kind of a slow moving character study wrapped around a sf version of [b:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine|26889576|The Big Short Inside the Doomsday Machine|Michael Lewis|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1446581171s/26889576.jpg|6654434]. I do like this author but I've actually not read the books in this series, so given that this was a book 4, it was surprisingly readable. And then it has late in the book action of various sorts. So definitely okay. But I might have liked it more if I had read the earlier books. This was from an Uncorrected Proof so basically an ARC - Advance Reader Copy.