In the States, we like heroes, those out of the ordinary or leaving, and that is how Braunbeck sustains his. At the same time, the situation is terrible because filled with Cornelian choice several times in this novel.
Then, in this novel, it is not sailing in full Manichaeism and that's what makes the interest of this novel and its development ...
Read and advise ...
And I'm not talking about very strong key scenes ...
I do know that advise a short run book "The aisles of plenty" that give a very good idea of what this author writes too little known in France.