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Tedious read with an interesting ending This book was a lot of work for me to get through. I know it has a lot of positive reviews, but it does not work for me. Much of it drags on to long, without any pay off. I think it could have been cut by a third. The book starts off good when a London doctor witnesses a plane on fire streak across the sky toward the Heathrow airport. He suspects terrorist, it is a few days before the start of the War woth Iraq. The book then follows the doctor through his day: brain surgery, a car accident, an encounter with a street hood, a vist to a nursing home to visit his mother, a detailed brain surgery. The ending was a surpirse and I did like how it all caomes together at the end, I just thought the journey to the end was a bit over done. Oh yes, I do say you should check out the underground hit "A Tourist in the Yucatan" Addendum: I have had three people email me about this review telling me I am way to hard on the book and I miss the whole point. Three stars to me means it is still readable, and I could not even lift Mcewan's pencile, that said it just not my kind of book. Hey, I don't care for Faulkner but love Stienbeck, its just a matter of taste and sensibility.