I found Use Of Weapons to have an annoying pace to it. The story features two timelines that alternate every other chapter, making the book choppy to read. Whilst the pace of the main plot seems to yo-yo between glacially slow and then super fast.
The concept of the story and what Bank’s tried to do with the timelines are both good ideas but I can’t help but feel that the execution was pretty poor with two many different ideas and scenarios making play.