What on earth? Why the heck did I listen to this? I remember trying one in the eighties and finding the writing too meh. As an audiobook it was fine, excellent narrator, but what drew me to this? Ok, so it's eighties horror, cold war meets psychic powers meets vampires. Opening with a grand guignol scene in a Russian facility then taking its leisurely time introducing the main charcter and his antagonist. The pacing seems weird at first, but maybe I just haven't read this type of sprawling epic in a while, I dunno. It was grand. Very white and male. 'Keogh' is pronounced weirdly. Russian baddies, Bitish intelligence goodies, how dated is that? Two weird sex scenes. Harry's a bit of a Marty Stu, though not a complete one. It puts the work in establishing the mythos, presumably for the rest of the series to build on. It does build to a fairly satisfying climax. I'll probably try volume two, though I'm still mystified as to why I started this one.