This also took the thriller somewhere else, in that it incorporated real people and events into the story to dramatic effect. The proposition of how you get somebody to read a book from start to finish when they know the ending is handled magnificently. It's a chase story, about the hunt for somebody, but what makes it so special is that it has a remarkable narrative engine to it, given that we know before we start the book that the assassin is going to fail in his bid to kill a real head of state. It was the first of the heightened-detail thrillers filled with the sort of in-depth procedural and technical information that have become a large part of the fascination for readers of such books.
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