I found the last 50 pages to be overly violent-the scenes in Royal's basement dragged on unnecessarily. I thought the concept of Henry Sexton and Sleepy Johnson getting downstairs and saving Penn and his Fiancé (she was my least favorite character) not plausible. I also thought that Henry walking into the flame-thrower was over the top.
Finally the last chapter with Tom Cage alone, severely injured and able to overtake his two young attackers really unbelievable. The soliloquy about Thomas Jefferson was also overly long and unnecessary.
I won't read the second book. I want to find out what happens in the Voila murder but I don't want to plow through another 800 pages to do so.