"[E]ngaging... tension and delicious intrigue [are] meticulously constructed..."—Chicago Sun-Times "This is a great, gripping book, elegantly styled and provocative with its troubling underplots and psychological fathomings. People die, identities shift and change, the military police and shadowy creatures lurk on the sidelines, lust battles love. And through it all Krieger manages to explore the loneliness and isolation of exiles everywhere, the uprooting and the homesickness, and the burden of solitariness that no matter what happens, none can shake."—Providence Journal | "Krieger does a fine job capturing Lenny's guilelessness as well as the raging politics of the day...Lenny's an innocent abroad and Krieger makes it hard not to want to know how his story comes out."—San Diego Union Tribune "...a good debut with a lot of promise."—Toronto Globe and Mail "Krieger evokes the dreary darkness of the Uppsala winter and the paranoia and entitlement of the young Americans there...Krieger touches on the mix of noble and self-interested impulses that can propel activism..."—New York Times Book Review |
