"He is a writer of commanding mind and stylistic power." –The New York Times "Cassill is so remarkably deft with plot and characterization, and his prose is so very good." –Chicago Tribune “Mr. Cassill writes with whirling energy and explosive metaphorical shiftiness. His style is perpetually inventive; one reads with the joyful sense of something being continually created under one’s eyes.” —New York Review of Books