A brilliant literary thriller, packed with insight, intelligence and ideas...Eye-opening and absorbing: I really couldn't put it down

Carter employs conspiratorial and paranoid plotting to highlight the reality of American political division ...skilled at injecting pace and tension...a historical thriller that efficiently delivers both thrills and history, especially in the still under-developed chronicles of black America

Intricate plotting... richly involving

Crisp and enthralling...an ambitious novel...that covers the social, political and cultural changes in post-war America from the point of view of the black elite

Insights into a realm little known in the UK

[Carter is] a very good storyteller... readers will find the Harlem of this book downright intriguing

Very successful as a page turning thriller, pacy enough and containing enough plot twists to keep the reader guessing while at the same time never feeling contrived ... It is a thriller in the best sense of the word and one that is well worth investigating

Spellbinding