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On top of that it's about Conrad Hensley, a young man, who gets to know the american justice
system after being laid off of one of Crokers warehouses, Fareek 'the Cannon' Fannon, a football
star suspected of rape, Roger White II., his lawyer and Martha Croker, Charlie's first wife. All these
people revolve around Charlie Croker who, knowingly or unknowingly, changes their lives.
"The Setting is Atlanta, Georgia - a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth
and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a
late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality.
Charlie has a 29.000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife - and
a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt...."
I waited for this book a long time. 10 years ago I read Tom Wolfe's last novel 'Bonfire of the Vanities'
in no time. For me it was THE book of the 80s. Now it should be followed by THE book of the 90s ...
I read all 742 pages of my volume nicely, put it back into my bookshelf and forgot about it. One can't
say for sure that the book is 'bad', but for me all one can say about it is 'ok, someone wrote a book ..
so what'. It doesn't leave an impression. And therefore I can't think of anything else to say about it.
What a pity.
[Dorothée Büttgen, May 99]