A page turner, and the idea was very interesting and mostly skilful in the execution (Like I could have done this!). Some of the incidental passages are quite beautiful. There is a bit of a deus ex machina quality and ... a few persistent ambiguities in the plot, shall we say. With all that said, I saved a few more of Reed's books on Scribd, and I hope that this has been optioned because, again, the basic idea was a lot of fun ...