RaveThe Daily Hampshire Gazette... [a] searing narrative ... Zucchino brings a journalist’s immediacy to Wilmington’s Lie, while also laying out the historical background for the 1898 terror, as well as the incomplete efforts in the city today to come to terms with this grim past ... Zucchino’s account makes for harrowing but can’t-turn-away reading; he basically describes an armed overthrow of a lawfully elected government and open murder of innocent people ... one of the most disturbing and frightening books I’ve ever read. It should be required reading for whites who scoff at the idea of white privilege.
August Thomas
MixedThe Greenfield RecorderLiar’s Candle is a fast-paced, cinematic read that benefits from Thomas’ close observations and understanding of modern Turkey. But it’s undermined by an improbable plot that seems to have stolen a chapter from 24, with Penny as something of a female Jack Bauer: knocking out bad guys, parachuting from a helicopter, confronting terrorists and stretching believability past the breaking point.
