PITY THE POOR thriller writer as he grapples with ever-advancing technology: while it may delight his geekier readers, each refinement narrows his room for manoeuvre. Once a protagonist needed only quicker wits and a faster horse to evade the villain’s henchmen; now he must dodge CCTV cameras, phone trackers and even drones. It is much to Andrew Rosenheim’s credit that he manages to keep his hero on the run for more than 300 pages without a team of boffins to jam the enemy’s com munications at vital moments.
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