I’ve read a few books in the Milton series and enjoyed them all. This one, Vultures, not so much. Milton is definitely showing his age. He’s not as fast as he was and he’s no longer the action hero of earlier stories. As if by chance, because he has nothing better to do, he follows his stolen AirPods. He starts in Venice, where the signal shows them in possession of an individual who attends a presentation about a cryptocurrency.. He’s thrown out for decrying the scheme as a scam and so the adventure begins. Except it’s not much of an adventure. It’s the story of a pan international financial scam where a pyramid scheme persuades investors to buy into a non existent cryptocurrency. The main players are elusive, moving offices and money around the world and defying legal action to bring them to justice. I’ve listened to the audio version, which is well narrated although I found some of the Italian accents and delivery rather irritating. Milton inveigles his way into a group who are trying to bring the company down, but there’s relatively little action and a lot of repetition about how cryptocurrency works and the risks of investing. Milton suddenly seems rather dull compared to other stories and I feel he’s lost his edge and interest. Informative about the perils of cryptocurrency but not packed with the high octane action I was anticipating, so overall this is disappointing.