Having started with Brown back in the 90’s, his books were futuristic yet plausible, tense yet credible. Silver Tower, Flight of the Old Dog - they don’t read well now but in their time, they were superb.
Price of Duty... it’s bad now, no way is it going to get better. The plot is predictable and pretty much taken straight out of a newspaper - it’s too much like modern life. You have your usual industrible heroes - Polish in part due to obviously Americans only not working now - but Brown does make an effort by killing off a couple of them - but you can see it coming miles away. Whereas the ending in some of his older books truly was edge of the seat stuff, this is just dull.
That’s the biggest problem - it’s too stereotyped, too predicatable and just boring. We didn’t have much Stacey in this one at least - but she’s still around, still being annoying.
In short, very poor, very weak and can’t really see how he can resurrect it from where it is right now.