Praise for
Harlot’s Ghost

“Mailer writes with a power and sparkle not often seen these days .  .  .. This is a great book, the U.S. Cold War version of War and Peace.”

—San Diego Tribune

“The kind of intensely imagined world that only the very best novelists can create or sustain.”

—The New York Review of Books

“Highly entertaining .  .  . Brimful of the most original anecdotes I’ve read in years.”

—Chicago Sun-Times

“This is one of the best fucking novels [I’ve] ever read .  .  .. Whatever his faults, he is simply the best.”

—The Village Voice

“Reads like an express train .  .  . Never has Mailer written more swiftly and surely, more vividly.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Harlot’s Ghost is the most brilliant novel ever written about the CIA.”

—Minneapolis Star Tribune