"Ward is simply one of the best." - MICHAEL CONNELLY "Mr. Ward writes with a directness and sincerity that is increasingly rare in these days of fashionable irony and high-tech literary pyrotechnics." - MICHIKO KAKUTANI. THE NEW YORK TIMES "The book's pulsing vitality as in the novels of Thomas Wolfe, a writer of similar faults and virtues- carries the day." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON SHEDDING SKIN "Ward serves up a storyline crackling with action and a cool cast of thugs, traitors, killers, and creeps." - BOOKLIST ON TOTAL IMMUNITY