Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2015
I found the story compelling; I particularly liked the way the menace and threat gradually increases throughout the book, and how the fairly safe, routine world of the protagonist becomes incrementally more insecure and uncertain. There are parts of the book that make for difficult reading, but I was gripped. The story was convincing - the mix of the familiar and recognisable from contemporary society combined with the nightmarish vision of an American dominated UK was all too easy to imagine.

The relationship between the protagonist and Karl, a member of the …