As a die-hard fan of the first book - my only disappointment was that I discovered there was a sequel to it 13 years after it was published. And what a sequel. It took the tidy ending of the first story - turned the story right around and put our hero in more peril that he was before. A little wordy in places with a few too many scenes of unnecessary discussions and conversations attempting to flesh out what was already quite an adequate writing style - and then BANG back into the action. The only disappointment fir me was that the story seemed to end too soon. All in all a worthy successor to the first book - buoyed along by the success of the Firefox movie in 1982.