Thrilling ... Expertly paced ... Predictably, the novel’s twin undercurrents of pride and corruption surface with fatal consequences, and the lively narrative ends as fate demands that it must. Murder is avenged and avarice thwarted in a novel that verges on allegory and yet transports us to a time and place as solid as the ill-fated rock that brings only disaster.
Ian McGuire chronicles unvarnished avarice and evil intent like few others writing today ... White River Crossing, sees him continuing in this mode ... The language feels spring-loaded, evocative, alive.
