Another excellent polemical novel by a neglected novelist.

It was reviewed by the Denver Post to be an "excellent novel".

Actually, every one of Shute's excellent novels is available in paperback from a major publisher, and selling well.

But now the story has resurfaced with force, as it has become an excellent novel.

"While you were looking down, I slipped from between the pages of the excellent novel you have in your coat pocket."

Reviewers noted that despite being an unproven writer, Staten had succeeded in crafting an excellent novel.

Many excellent novels have been written as a series of loosely linked stories, of course, but this is not one of them.

It is an excellent novel, though it must be remembered that he writes with a prisoner's bias and sympathies.

I don't think these excellent novels have ever been dramatised and they'd make beautiful period TV dramas.

Ernest Hemingway called the book "the only good novel I've ever read about a fighter, and an excellent novel in its own right."