Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Cannot recommend.

Two out of five stars. This book is a bit better than the minimum one star thanks to its attention to environmental detail, but all the good and interesting stuff in this book is in the background. The protagonist is *supposed* to be a decorated veteran with experience working with different people of different positions and levels in many different settings. But the protagonist in this book functions as a tactless rookie cop bounced back and forth by events like a ball in a game of ping pong.If as much work had been put into the plot and making the principal characters' backgrounds, motivations, and actions believable, as had been put into the environmental details, this book would really have been something.