Cloudsplitter

"[A]s history, it is a very bad book indeed: characters and incidents have been altered, rearranged and reinvented, and speculative analysis, ungrounded in the historical record, has been slathered over Brown's entire life. As a novel, however, 'Cloudsplitter' makes for some highly entertaining--and at times, deeply affecting -- reading. For all its flaws, it emerges as Banks' most ambitious and fully realized novel since 'Continental Drift'..."Banks, Russell is the author of 'Cloudsplitter', published 1999 under ISBN 9780060930868 and ISBN 0060930861.