"A Page-Turner Part Sly, Part Sweet....Surprising...The plot is ambitious and apocalyptic.... [and] a high-speed diplomatic race... This is a romp. The authors have a great deal of fun throwing up red herrings.... Political junkies will relish the veiled insults to real-life people....The emotional cast to the writing, the tendency to dangle portents and wait some time before resolving them, the depiction of friendship, the short paragraphs, the philosophical aperçus - these are all marks of Penny's writing....If Clinton is slyly settling old political scores, she is also, sweetly, celebrating women's support of one another later in life."