PositiveLibrary JournalAt times, Stout\'s writing suffers from purple prose and focuses much more on the Candy Kid than the Tiger Girl. Despite a slow start, however, the narrative picks up around the middle and ends with a flourish ... Those interested in tales of white-collar crime and 20th-century history will be pleased.
Jed S. Rakoff
MixedLibrary JournalThe book tends to be repetitive and it loses focus at times, likely because each chapter was once a stand-alone essay previously published in the New York Review of Books. The latter half of the work is dedicated to complex constitutional issues, and the main thesis of judicial failure to ensure justice served for both the innocent and the guilty is lost ... With some weaknesses in the writing yet with important insights into the future of the justice system, this title is best suited for academic and law libraries and public libraries with a devoted criminal justice or legal readership rather than a general audience.
