Gibson dumps you in at the deep end and lets you figure out what's going on through the dialogue and actions of the characters. I quite like that the way he does it, although it makes the first couple of chapters slow going. The time travel thing is fascinating - they have this "server", no one knows where it came from, they sort of know how to use it to get into the past. The only thing is that once they get there, the timeline will now diverge from their own, making a different world. But I'm not entirely certain why they needed Burton (and so got Flynne instead) for security in the first place. And I'm also not certain why Lowbeer was so interested in the murder of a celebrity's sister. I read pretty fast, so I expect there was some bit of conversation that explained her importance and I just missed it. But no matter, on we go, into a world of a couple major powers, not exactly governments, but with the same motives of absolute power.

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