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I finished it last night and enjoyed the book. While it has a compelling to read story line I thought the prose had some sort of perfunctory nature about it. Something about it made it feel as if it had been written in a rush (perhaps to get the compelling story on paper?) and the dialogue came across as a little unnatural. That said it was a worthwhile read.
BUT he makes an error even a pulp fiction novelist would not make and that is research the things he did not know anything about before writing them multiple times into the story. He refers to both the police and the terrorists using "shortwave" radios and it is clear that these are being carried, in fact in one instance it is said "The sergeant pulled out a shortwave radio and spoke into it" so clarifying these are small units, handheld type. There were no such "shortwave radios" and he amplifies his error by referring to their use many times.
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