Jackpot
“Cherchez la femme.”
Moving on.
This is the second book in the last six months that has allowed for the notion that cellular electronics built in mainland China could easily be infected/pre-installed with sniffers/trackers. Think: spyware. Just an increasingly common trope.
Reminded me, more than anything else of another book I’ve read recently — one of the Goldberg thriller series. Both demonstrated that tight plotting — but this one was tight, like a loaded spring wire. Missed some of the usual conventions, but it was workman-like, and good.