This is a very decent book and I liked it, but I didn't love it as much as I expected.
The author captures the ambiance of the era and blends many real life events and people inside the plot. The prose is easy, the premise is a bit naive but interesting and the book moves fast. But there is lots of hyperbole and impossibilities at the fictionalpart of the book, little character development and lots of cliche. At some point Panos Amyras seems to forget a huge part of the plot when the protagonist resolves a case and suddenly everyone invlolved nearly forgets him and we don't get to see the consequences of said case. The final part of the book gets too forced and cliche and silly.
Often authors who have done great research about a subject, era and place are tempted to add many unnecessary scenes, information and descriptions in their novels, becoming too poignant or interrupting the pace of the narration or not focusing on their characters developement and their plots crafting. This book is not an exception I'm affraid.
I liked it, it's easy to read, it moves fast, but its flaws sometimes make it too didactic and poignant, too naive or uneven and this irked me, because I wanted to like it more. For sure I'll read sometime "The Ransom", the next book written by the author, starring the same protagonist.