"7 "As in his first novel, In the Secret State, McCrum displays a talent for moody, atmospheric narration here but again lavishes that talent on a thin story--this time the familiar, didactic tale of a passive, apolitical man's radicalization. McCrum...
Peter Cisar's first letter arrived late in 1968, the year that saw the peak of Christopher Illes' short-lived fame. Now married, his fame a memory, Illes is on his way to Vienna to meet Peter Cisar, his only contact with his lost past....