From Booklist
*Starred Review* After his wife, Florencia, is assassinated and he’s left for dead (in Dead Anyway, 2012), Arthur Cathcart gets revenge, but he still wants answers. What motivated the assassination, and why was Florencia, owner of a profitable insurance brokerage company, embezzling large sums of money? The bullet that hit Cathcart’s brain during the shooting—he was certified as dead by his cardiologist sister—has robbed him of some of his numerical abilities, but he’s still a crackerjack researcher skilled with electronics. So, with Natsumi Fitzgerald, the blackjack dealer he fell in love with after his rehab, Cathcart sets out on his quest. With money secure and alternate identities available, the two warily open a safe-deposit box in a Cayman Islands bank, retrieving the flash drive inside but touching off an international chase by various factions that want them dead. In an adrenaline-fueled chase across beautiful European locales, including the south of France and lake district of Italy, Cathcart and Fitzgerald make canny use of their resources to remain a step ahead of their pursuers. With Cathcart as the once-nerdy everyman up against powerful adversaries and Fitzgerald as his loving sidekick, Knopf has a smart, sizzling, jet-setting series with a delightful touch of wry wit.
I got this as an ARC not realizing that it was a sequel. However, I was able to keep up with the story. It is fast paced, never dull.
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