Great over view and introduction, but the style was a little too breathless. Would've been better to tie each chapter back to the overall premise, rather than try to end with "cliffhangers."

After spending a long time with this book, as a fairly careful and attentive reader, I don't think I could tell you how the players in the first half of the book contributed to the outcome at the end of the book. Or, more generally, how the beginning of the fall is different from the end of the fall or why the "end" of the fall is really The End???