PositiveWashington Independent Review of BooksMassive but well-worth-reading ... To write American Trickster, Marshall visited Cajamarca twice, interviewed hundreds of people, and referenced countless books and articles. Their writing style, with its plethora of colons and sentence fragments, sometimes irritated me, and one gets bogged down in details of phenomenology and the ever-shifting names of cult members ... But the book as a whole overwhelms and provokes in a good way.