Bucharest Dossier

I’d give this 3.5 stars if I knew how. I really enjoyed most of it, especially the mystery of Hefflin’s past and the way he got caught up in events at the fall of the Ceausescus. However, some parts were a bit fantastic - not only the (in my opinion) unnecessary receipt of great wealth at the end, but other things too; for example, Hefflin for all his disgust at the violence of the revolution and his disillusionment with the CIA seems to experience very little anguish about killing people himself. Even justified it seems like something an ordinary person wouldn’t simply accept having done. And parts of the romance could have been better written. The resolution felt rushed. Still, it is Maz’s first novel, so let’s see where he goes from here.