Reviews
Like John le Carr, [O'Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debasedgenre from 'serious' fiction. O'Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of thebest we have., Like John le Carré, [O'Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debasedgenre from 'serious' fiction. O'Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of thebest we have., ""[O'Brian's novels] will outlive most of today's putative literary gems as SherlockHolmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as Mark Twain has outlived CharlesReade."