“I was mesmerized by this book and read it compulsively, frustrated that I couldn't put it all together myself but then disappointed, at the end, when Barker ties some (but definitely not all) of the loose ends all too neatly. The moment-to-moment details are so perfectly drawn, though, that they make the bigger, weirder (definitely captivating) story of nasty history insinuating itself into the present more immediate and make the loose ends (and not loose-enough ends) all more tolerable. But, really, what happened to Fleet?”
jentaw wrote this review Sunday, September 6 2009.
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