Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Written by an insider, with the skills of a hack

Sorry to be harsh, but this isn't a very good novel. It mostly suffers from two things 1. Clumsy characterization. The characters are barely sketched out and seem mostly there to dole out huge heaping lumps of amatuerish exposition. They do dumb things not out of human fraility but because the author needs to advance the plot. 2. The prose is purple and riddled with the most banal cliches like "wiry little man" and "lyric psalms" and describing sunshine on windows as the reflection of "orange energy". There are plenty of mawkish scenes, such as the scene of an IRA assasination being described as a place where children in their "Sunday best" cling to their parents who, boo-hoo, realize the Troubles, aye the Troubles are still with us.If you're looking for an "insider" view of the ATF, look elsewhere(...)