

Darren Priest, formerly an elite interrogator with the US Army and now a writer for a wine magazine, is asked to look into nefarious goings-on connected with a bank in Vienna.
For almost every bite of food and sip of a drink we are told where Priest was eating or drinking, who the server was, and the precise origin of the wine, beer, or coffee. Even allowing for a drug having been slipped into his morning espresso, this verged on the obsessive.