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'The End of a Mission' is a bit of a one-joke book, and I didn't find it particularly funny. The Boll I have read in the past is at his best when at his driest, and I don't think the sort of absurd humour he was attempting here suited him. It read like farce in places, which is never a good thing in my opinion. Humour is, of course, very subjective, but the book relied heavily on comic absurdity that just didn't work. The writing was also strangely dense, and for a very small book it was fairly hard work. There were a few moments where I could see the shoots of something deeper poking through, and at times he touched on some of the themes that made 'Katherine Blum' a fantastic book, but it was not often enough, or coherent enough for me.