Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: A page-turner,that keeps you on your toes

A thiller that challenges you on an intellectual level, at the same time, Gordon swiftly fleshes out his characters, and engages you in situations which if not historical, are darn close. Suspense, intrigue, romance, international locales, with an eye, ear and nose that makes the reader almost there in the restaurant in Florence.With the Biblical heroine Esther as motif, Gordon brings the characters in this story of modern day international intrigue through challenges to loyalty, love, honor and friendship, and keeps them human. Attention to details crafts this into on believable, enjoyable read, to be savored more than once.