Pilger is the closest we have to the greatest correspondents of the 1930s... The truth in his hands is a weapon, to be picked up and brandished and used in the struggle against evil and injustice

Pilger's strength is his gift for finding the image, the instant, that reveals all - he is a photographer using words instead of a camera

A modern interpretation of world affairs in a cynical age

The greatest, wildest author of his generation

The intellectual game-play is characteristically dazzling...colourful and pleasurable

You don't have to have been there; if you're willing, he'll take you there

The pioneering work in a genre you'd have to call psychedelic Noir ...Who writes sentences as beautiful as Pynchon?

Pynchon leaves the rest of the American literary establishment at the starting gate...the range over which he moves is extraordinary, not simply in terms of ideas explored but also in the range of emotions he takes you through

The most important and mysterious writer of his generation

A warm and joyous read. There is softness about this book, but also a tinge of melancholy

'A scandalously good read'

Brilliant

An enjoyably black and bracingly unsentimental novel

Brilliant black comedy