The Wolves

A good book; a nice end to the Duberman story arc, with a few unfortunate caveats.As always, Berenson's characters, writing style, and locations are rich and colorful, without being too wordy or over the top. And this book was no exception.Unfortunately, his pacing reeks of publisher-itis, and its not just this book, but the whole Duberman story arch. Duberman, who we've spent 3 books getting to know as the big bad guy, gets a rather short ending; a quick shot to the body, after far too much lead up. And thats not the only example of such pacing irregularities. A substantial portion of the book has Wells doing nothing but simple surveillance, and then the Russians are suddenly brought in and the pace almost doubles. Then Wells is kidnapped by MI6, stuffed aboard an aircraft carrier, and the pacing slows way down again.The whole story could have easily fit in a book the size of [b:The Midnight House 6999817 The Midnight House (John Wells, #4) Alex Berenson https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1436659058s/6999817.jpg 7243391], and it seems like there was far too much filler for 3 books worth.But publishers demand their pound of flesh and I guess they got it here.