The novel was praised as a gripping narrative and a classic of the prison-camp genre.

She was noted for her gripping narratives of men at war and nations on the brink of war.

If any of those terms initially seems as difficult to grasp as to pronounce, obstacles fade quickly in the author's gripping narrative.

All this they have spun into a gripping narrative of war, politics and diplomacy.

A gripping narrative, sir.

As it is, the gripping narrative and wonderfully empowering combat mean you'll be talking about it for months after completing it.

The machinations of empire, the corruption of power, and a gripping narrative to boot.

It, too, has a gripping narrative, about accusations of sexual abuse leveled against a priest in a Bronx Roman Catholic school in 1964.

This tension between the good and evil sides of Huey Newton makes for a gripping narrative that reads almost like fiction.