One of the biggest fiction hardbacks of 2002. Hailed as the return of 'the great American novel'. Will be backed by a huge Random House paperback campaign. '...lives up to the hype...an absorbing and exciting mystery...The book is superb both as a thriller and as a novel of social observation' 'Observer'. 'Assured and well paced...Carter writes with a keen satirical edge' 'New Statesman'.