The tale managed to draw comment from David Cameron himself, which seems to have been the last straw for Hertfordshire police, who issued a statement declaring: "The story, based on quotes from Ms Klass's publicist and interpreted by some national newspapers, does not reflect the events of that night in an accurate way".
Scientists who have read the book say that somehow, Ms. Goodman has managed to write a tale about life in a science lab that rings so true and includes details so accurate and vivid that they say they are left reeling.
However, "Angels In My Hair" certainly proved to be an engrossing tale that managed to intrigue and inspire even this cynic.
For all the secrecy and paranoia and dictatorial control Jobs and Davis shared, some writers actually managed to return with tales to tell from Raiders-land.
To be fair, the climax is surprisingly touching; somehow, the residents of this cooked-up tale manage to earn our pity and support.
The best literary SF, such as Cormac McCarthy's The Road, or Atwood's own patriarchal dystopia The Handmaid's Tale, manages to solve these problems.
In an evening of gripping theater directed by Will Frears and featuring a superb cast, it is striking that this Kafkaesque tale manages to eke out a happy ending.
Her recently published novel, "The Biographer's Tale," manages to be zany and programmatic all at once as her life-writing protagonist tries to negotiate more layers and goose chases and garden paths than he ever anticipated existing between himself and his subject, who also happens to be a biographer.
The statistics told a partial tale: The Bryans managed only four aces while Karlovic and Moser were claiming ten.
The dramatic potential of his own descent was not lost on Mr. MacIntyre, who managed to weave the story of his final days into a tale of intrigue.
