This is the 2nd time I‘ve picked up this book, the first getting waylaid by the somewhat rambling storylines of the first half of the book. However, this is a classic example of persistence pays. Satisfyingly suspenseful, with prompt resolutions for those of us not bored by a happy ending. Please never ask me to pronounce any place names from this book. Excuse me while I spend several years reading the next 20-whatever books in the series.