Continuation of the story of book one (Europe in Autumn). Hutchinson shakes it up and we get the perspective from the other side. The aftermath of a coup d'etat in a university sciences faculty is dealt with. A man is stabbed and left for dead after negotiating a bus fare a bit too boisterously. Also nukes. Nukes too. And sewer network exploration.

This book leans a bit more toward the police procedural/espionage genre than SF. Hutchinson delivers several good 'oh shit' revelations, and does a good job fleshing out the politics and factionalism that makes the inter-(intra? supra?)national divide so dangerous. Book three gets set up nicely, and it's on the TBR.