Despite my ongoing issues with the repetition and the agenda against print journalists, I did enjoy the actual story and of course Rick so I'm comfortable with giving this a four. I thought the conspiracy was well done, if not a little obvious. They didn't go for the tweeest I expected and they did a good job of portraying both the trials of political reporting and crisis reporting so kudos. Longer review to come. Eventually. Though I doubt I'll be reading the sequel since I'm not interested in (view spoiler)[a book narrated by Shaun (hide spoiler)].