"Opens a window onto a world of mystery, war, and intrigue whose importance in the (usually) unwritten history of our republic can't be denied. "Johnson has captured the zeitgeist of American experience as surely as Twain, Hemingway, or Ellison." - New York Post " Tree of Smoke is a masterpiece of language and depth." - San Francisco Chronicle has written a book that by the end wraps around you as tightly as a snake." - The Washington Post Book World get inside your head like the war it is describing-mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. "I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's." - Jonathan Franzen intervention in Southeast Asia and the life of a CIA. "Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and Tree of Smoke is a tremendous book." - The New York Times Book Review Denis Johnsons new novel, Tree of Smoke, is one of the late summers big books in a number of ways.
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