The New York Times
  calls The Sleeper a
  "first-rate thriller."



  "Without question one
  of the best travel books
  of this or any other
  year."
  -David Rieff,
  Los Angeles Times 		  "A heartbreaking,
  eloquent memoir by
  the son of the
  heartbreaking,
  eloquent poet,
  James Dickey."
  -Elizabeth Hardwick

  "New York Times
  Notable Book of
  the Year"



  "Reads like a thriller,
  and carried the
  authority of
  solid reporting."
  - Washington
  Journalism Review

  "New York Times
  Notable Book of
  the Year" 		  "Powerful, lethal,
  downright breathtaking
  in its range, Innocent
  Blood is the best novel
  I can imagine about
  America right now --
  and the cost of
  forgetting how we got
  here."
  - Joan Didion, 1997