RaveThe New York Journal of Books... both an international political thriller and an epidemiology of anticommunist hysteria. The narrative possesses broad-brush information, yet at the time presents the inner workings of individual characters. Despite the heated ideological conflicts, there aren’t any one-dimensional strawman characters. Everyone has motivations that seem organic, lived-in, and real ... The novel is less an anti-American diatribe (or CIA indictment) than a group portrait of a carefully engineered case of collective insanity.
