After reading and loving 'Courting Rendition', I eagerly awaited Maggie Allder's second book in the trilogy. 'Living with the Leopard' didn't disappoint, meeting and surpassing all my expectations.

The book takes place a few years later. England and the US are still in the 'New Alliance'. Maggie Allder was prescient: her books were written before Brexit, before Donald Trump, and before the nascent rise of the extreme right in many countries.

Once again, Allder's main characters are normal people going about their normal lives. But, always looming again, is the dreaded ATTF (the Anti-Terrorist Task Force) and the new 'economics …