The paper's literary section makes the work audio book of the week and adds...
This unusual thriller is composed by a series of bestselling authors who each write a chapter. It opens with Harry Middleton, a mild-mannered American musicologist, getting into a spot of bother in Poland while he’s on his way home with a – possibly genuine – Chopin manuscript. Deaver, having set up the story, passes it to Hewson, who moves it to Rome and introduces a water pistol, used to clever effect by the next author. The plot switchbacks crazily around the world as characters painstakingly created by one writer are gunned down by the next (a Wikipedic knowledge of classical-music composition is the key to averting terrorist catastrophe). Published in weekly downloadable installments to heighten the suspense, it’s fabulous fun.
