And the last hundred pages or so, which focus on Leo's relationship with Mark, who has grown up to become a deceitful and possibly murderous teenager, have the turnability of a good thriller.Much of the best writing in the book is about creativity.
It makes me uneasy, because it is dangerously similar to the mood on the left in 2004, when so many of us figured that the country couldn't possibly return to office someone as incompetent, deceitful and destructive as Bush.
A sense of the West being deceitful is exacerbated by reports of American, German, French and possibly Belgian special forces establishing themselves in northern Syria.
In an interview, Mr. Cravaack said the attack was based on "a deceitful stretch of the imagination," and he asked: "How can you possibly think that repealing Obamacare would provide me with health care for life?
By being patient and remaining silent, many deceitful people will keep talking to fill that silence, embellishing and possibly slipping up in the process, without even being asked anything!
"Then there are the deceitful few who feel compelled to use an agent, a seller and a situation to make a quick buck, possibly illegally," he says.
