Reviews

From Kirkus Reviews, August 1, 1997

Westlake makes his US fiction debut with a tale that's exasperating and brilliant by turns... [...] Genius mixed with tedium. The former wins out over the latter....

From Publisher's Weekly, August 1, 1997

... an intellectual play on the art of fiction itself, in which the eye of the beholder becomes very much the key to its cleverly constructed mystery.

Chapter 2, pp 5-7