I will say, however, one thing before moving off the political, and that is this: the novel ends beautifully, in what is really a master stroke. As I read deeper and deeper into the book - especially in the chapters where the NYPD starts to take on a role in the narrative - the Huffington Post/Daily Kos/Firedog Lake type pontificating started to grate on me a bit, but in managing to find a conclusion that avoids any one political ideology Hamilton atones for this 'sin'.