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Review title: Worth reading, but skip the first and last two chapters
Product review: I agree with the other critics that this book could have done with some editing, but I found most of the book--the middle--very engaging in the style of the Harry Flashman series of books by the late Sir Malcolm Macdonald Fraser. The biggest difference between the two is that the protagonist of this book, John Lawrence, is a fatally flawed idealist, whereas the fictional Flashman is a cad, coward, opportunist, and pragmatist of the first order. It is worth noting that the Flashman character lives well into his nineties, while Lawrence dies young.
