V for Victor

-- Marianne Gingher, New York Times Book Review

"A crackling good adventure is tough to pull off, but Mark Childress has done just this and he's done it brilliantly.  From his lyrical opening passages, which evoke the softness of adolescent innocence, right up through his explosive finale, he never lets us come up for air.  And we never want to.  Think of the Hardy Boys if you will, but also think of Harper Lee, and early Capote.  This is a yarn spun with poetry.  This is storytelling at its best."

-- Peter Buckley, Vogue

"The whole 'great watery plain of Mobile Bay' is a world the author and his gangly hero know with a strong and lovely intimacy."

-- Philadelphia Inquirer