Skios
by Michael Frayn
2012 / 272 pages
rating:  8.5  (a 1/2 point for laughing)

Like the prior novels I’ve read by Frayn, a British playwright and novelist,  Skios is a wonder of complex plotting, human foibles,  con-artistry and hilarity.   Skios won a long-list nod for the Man Booker Prize this last year – his book Headlong won a short list slot.  Spies,  the other Frayn novel  >>>MORE>>>