> > Skimming the Amazon reviews, I got the impression that Moran excels at > > plot but not at prose. Is that fair? Does it matter? Is > > evil-blue-hats-take-over-the-world-giving-the-French-control-of-America > > really the background? > > Yep. Fascinatingly prescient, in a boy-we-dodged-that-bullet sort of way. There are always more bullets - Hillary may take the White House in 2008 and before you know it first graders will have to learn La Marseillaise.