An instant classic of that svelte form: no longer than a rattlesnake’s body and just as explosive ... The great genius of ,em>Eradication is how deftly Miles reveals the dimensions of Adi’s pain ... Miles has an uncanny ability to create a terrifying kind of momentum, a swelling of alarm that propels the story from bumbling comedy to moral terror ... Give yourself a day to take in the full effect of Eradication. By the time you realize what could happen, there’s no getting off this island or escaping the reckoning at its very last page.
Excellent ... As the story opens, Adi, a grieving, divorced schoolteacher, accepts a job from an unnamed foundation offering him a chance to save the world ... Threaded throughout the novel — which Miles helpfully terms a 'fable' — is a patient, skillful reveal of the cruel death of Adi’s son and the resulting dissolution of his marriage, a fable within the fable that sharpens and complicates these finely drawn moral dilemmas.
