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Review title: An excellent novel
Product review: I don't give five stars to rank certain works up there with Moby Dick or Proust or whatever, but to certify that a book has done its job, and this one does it quite well: highly readable and rewarding. You don't just toss it aside and move on to the next pulper. It stays with you and has big questions. The words and sentences have grain and feeling, writ with a sharp journalistic eye. The atmosphere is palpable, weighing on the mind even after you put the book down for a while. This puts it on a higher level than even excellent spy thrillers like Eye of the Needle. Anyone interested in history and politics should read it, because it asks us how important is history? How important is the truth? Is it possible some of the bigger things we've accepted as true in history are in fact artifacts of mythography?
