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Title: Umberto Eco Meets Alan Greenspan and James Bond
Review: A thought-provoking and enticing work that seems to raise more questions than manufacture answers, subtle and complex issues in philosophy, sociology, ethics, and even mysticism are explored in engaging and concrete ways. In the tradition of Umberto Eco's "The Name of The Rose," and Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game," Johnson carves out a post-modern morality tale in sharp relief without ever lapsing into purple prose or speculative jibberish. Kant once remarked that "concepts without percepts are empty, and percepts without concepts are meaningless." Similarly, Johnson's work underscores and achieves an organic and dialectical balance between philosophy and narrative: both need each other lest they wax empty or meaningless. Be prepared to read the novel in a relatively short time, but to think about and digest its subtle and multifaceted implications for a very long time.
