For the first 50 or so pages, I was really regretting requesting this book. It was starting up slow, and not starting with the Crashers - and they're who I'm here to read about. Throughout the book, the descriptions of the techno-jerk and his equipment are somewhere between over-the-top stereotype and badly guessed geek info. Less detail would have been better than wrong detail. (Somewhat similarly, every time the author described women's clothing by designer, I was jarred out of the book. That's not the sort of info that you can assume that all thriller readers know off hand.) [return][return]BUT, when things pick up, and our actual main characters appear, the book gets much better. Odd quirks of humor, fast moving plot, enjoyable dialogue - once we have the cast all put together, things move and I developed enough interest that the book became hard to put down. [return][return]There's a lot more people and complications involved that I would have expected from a book supposedly about Crashers - it's almost more about the FBI involvement. It's a good story once it gets going, but I'd love to actually read a book focused on the NTSB investigators. [return][return]Still, I give it 4 stars because the second half of the book has just the right tone and tempo for this genre. (Minus the jarring scenes with the geek.)