|summary=A New York public defender gets involved in the perfect heist as his hitherto perfect career starts a nose-dive. It's a sprawl of a book that has some great moments, far outweighed by superfluous digressions. This winner of the PEN Debut fiction prize left me glad to leave it behind.
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You probably know that when you start a review of a book by quoting someone else that you are not really going to have anything original to say about it. Sometimes that's because it's already been lauded to the skies and you agree with every published word.