I knew this was a fairly long story and I kept it back until I had a bit more time, but I just wanted to say that even though I'm only at around the 25% mark (according to my kindle) I think I've actually fallen in love with it and all the characters I've met so far (and Bodie hasn't even met Doyle yet.....!). (And I was thrilled to see that you'd written a companion piece to it.)

This is yet *another* story which is presenting me with a real conundrum: I really don't want to finish it but I have to read on......