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Wonderful. Maybe even better than "Meadowland" or the J.W. Wells books, and certainly better than Holt's recent output under his real name. Imagine saving your best stuff to publish under a pseudonym.

Weekly columns from the Evening Sun. A few funny ones, and lots of commentary about the 1922 disarmament conference in Washington -- which brought out a scorching disgust with U.S. imperialism (especially in Haiti) that would make a Jacobin editor blush. But lots of repetition, especially about Prohibition.

Brilliantly funny beginning, satisfying ending, and a long middle that's a little overstuffed and frantic, like one of Tom Holt's lesser works.

A good book undone by the final chapter and the afterword, where to a swell of strings Dever ponders what ancient worship of Asherah means for modern believers. Not what I came here for.