Reviewed by Larry

Rodney Lake, with his tale of corruption, graft and a wrestling of priorities, attempts to build a bridge from fiction to lessons of integrity and social conscience. Had his prose been more polished, and his characters dynamic, he may well have succeeded.

Through the reading of this tale of this carefully detailed account of a man's rise to political office and subsequent decay of principle (or inability to act upon it), the reader learns first hand what many suspect already to be the truths of backroom politics. There are no surprises here; not even in the sudden change of heart the story teller has, when he decides to preserve his career and bypass the opportunity to do "what is right" and blow the whistle and perhaps incriminate himself through association.

There is still a valuable message to be gained from this piece - putting aside the easily remedied faults will result in finding it.