PARTNERS Evanovich and Goldberg are a potent force and their latest adventure offers another duo in master con artist Nicholas Fox and FBI agent Kate O’Hare, who combine their talents to bring down major league criminals. Topping their list in Carter Grove is a former White House chief of staff, who is as ruthless as he is devious, and whose latest criminal escapade has put the US on a collision course with China.

This is crime fiction with lashings of style and panache, but which still packs one hell of a punch.