MixedLos Angeles Review of BooksCaptivating ... The book’s third strand, an effort to reprise the story of the Marquis de Sade, his life and crimes, is not successful ... Sade’s complex, exciting, and highly documented life is a poor fit with brief journalistic recitals ... Concluding that Sade \"may or may not have been a lunatic\" is both vague and reductive, failing to come to grips with the abiding power of his writing ... How former insurance broker Gérard Lhéritier purchased and repatriated the lost scroll in 2014... is the story Warner tells with skill, from beginning to end.
