Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Too long & boring

This novel was overly long. It could have done with considerably more editing. As someone else has said, the constant name dropping of various famous figures got rather tedious.He was recruited to Naval Intelligence by Ian Fleming, is best mates with Hemmingway, plays golf with the Duke of Windsor, and unwittingly gets recruited to the Baader-Meinhof Organisation...I ask you! I couldn't warm to any of the characters as they were all pretty selfish and morally corrupt..Mounstuart has an affair with one of his oldest friend's wives. I do not think I would read another novel by this author.