Title: Pretty Good Spy Story
Product review: This is by now the fourth Kanon novel I've read. I've liked them all. He builds his story slowly, carefully, and generously, so that the characters are well fleshed out and the situations comprehensible and interesting. This tale contains no incredible heroics, or just barely, but picks up momentum so that the second half is a real page turner.A feature of all Kanon's novels is that the setting is thoroughly researched and vivid. You can follow the action on a map if you have one, and, in the case of the only one I can personally validate, Los Alamos, you will find all the details to be accurate. For The Prodigal Spy the principal settings are London, Prague and Washington DC, 1950 and 1969.
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