I was completely entranced by this novel, and enjoyed every taste of it. It‘s suspenseful without being a suspense novel, it‘s light without being lighthearted. It‘s just an overall “good” read; I truly don‘t know how else to describe it. I highly recommend this to fans of historical fiction, and fans of a good mystery.

This novel takes place post-World War II, following several narrations and perspectives, but focusing on the story of our anti-hero, Maurice Swift. Maurice will do anything to take fame as a writer, and he does. His moral and ethical “dilemmas” as we see them seem to be a series of choices that Maurice makes willingly and without remorse, as he climbs the ladder of success in any way that he can (hmm, maybe that‘s where the title came from…)