Steinhauer fans will hope for a return to form next time. Rachel Proulx, an earnest FBI agent, is obviously one of the good guys, but the ostensible bad guys are less well-delineated-and the denouement is unsatisfying. Steinhauer has captured a very contemporary, very American angst-“people are going to have to pull a trigger, just to be heard”-but the book’s muddled second half will leave many readers frustrated because the polarities aren’t that clear. He believes American politics has failed, and repairing it requires radical change, which appears to come about when simultaneous political assassinations are carried out at July 4 celebrations around the country. ![]() They are members of the Massive Brigade, a cult organized by social justice revolutionary Martin Bishop. get a call, then discard their phones, credit cards, IDs-and disappear. On June 18, 2017, hundreds of people around the U.S. The novel featured a minor character named Alfie Judah. As Somnath grows from an idealistic young man into a corrupt businessman, the novel becomes a terrifying portrait of the price the city extracts from its youth. For some reason I find difficult to understand, Steinhauer set the novel in 20, using dates that have already passed into history. The story in The Middleman unfolds in contemporary America. And it seems even less likely to look like the action in this novel. ![]() This smart polemical thriller from bestseller Steinhauer ( All the Old Knives) starts off strong, but loses its way. The Middleman is the title story in Bharati Mukherjees collection, The Middleman and Other. A Second American Revolution seems unlikely at best. 'The Middleman is smart and entertaining and consistently intriguing' New York Times Book Review ' The Middleman, with its abundance of multidimensional characters and political viewpoints, is a thought-provoking novel that never ceases to excite as a thriller.
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