If This Takes the Place of My Annual Review, That's Fine with Me

I've already quoted from this but, after admiring it on the home page of Booklist Online, thought I'd post a link. "Books by Booklist Authors: Keir Graff's The Price of Liberty" may have been written by my boss, Bill Ott, but that doesn't make me feel any less good about it. There are a lot of people whose bosses won't say anything nice about them, much less put it in writing and publish it for all the world to see. I'm fairly bursting my buttons.

With The Price of Liberty, Keir Graff concludes his post-9/11 trilogy featuring ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances. Jack McEnroe is a Wyoming construction worker whose latest gig finds him building a prison intended to give terrorists their own home on the range. There’s lots of federal money behind the project, and that means lots of graft. “I planned to write the first book in the trilogy [My Fellow Americans, 2007],” Keir explains, “about xenophobia, the second one [One Nation, Under God, 2008] about fundamentalism, and the third one about war profiteering. And, for the most part, that’s what I did. The books are definitely not a true series, however, as the time line is jumbled, and the characters don’t recur. And this last one is stylistically quite different.”

Posted: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 20:21 pm