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Title: A disappointing followup to "Battle Creek"
Review: Unlike one of the other reviewers, I couldn't even make it to p. 70 before I put this Wall Street potboiler aside. I was disappointed because I had enjoyed Lasser's "first" novel, "Battle Creek," the absorbing story of a semi-pro baseball team in Michigan. The reason I put quotation marks around the word "first," above, is that I suspect this novel actually was Lasser's first and that Knopf decided to publish it in order to capitalize on the favorable buzz for "Battle Creek." Like many first novels this one should have stayed in the author's drawer. The characters were nothing more than stereotypes, and the plot was unengaging and virtually incomprehensible to one not familiar with the bond trading business. I'm shocked that an author of the caliber of Richard Russo actually wrote a favorable blurb for this book. Don't let it fool you.Lasser has the ability to write quality fiction. Let's hope he recovers from this debacle to do that again.
