“A well-made piece of dynamite. . . . For all their talk, the author seems to be saying men will permit their souls to be carried away bit by bit and auctioned off to the highest bidder. Samson has written a suspenseful, engrossing novel with the...
Surely, it was only a game. In the orderly, pleasant world Barbara inhabited, nice children -- and they *were* nice children -- didn't hold an adult captive.
But what Barbara didn't count on was the heady effect their new-found freedom would have on...