While working through the video clips on Uncommon Knowledge, the online show with Peter Robinson at National Review Online, I came across an interview with novelist Andrew Klavan.

http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonkno...

In part one, Klavan describes how the thriller genre enabled him to ask certain fundamental questions about life, via his openly Christian hero in his book Empire of Lies. I have not read the book and wonder if anyone here has. I don't read much fiction anymore. But my ears certainly perked up during this interview, because he doesn't talk like most novelists talk. Again in part one, he mentions the "soft terrorism of ideas" in our universities. This from a Berkeley graduate. Also in part one, he calls De Sade the "only honest atheist," whose philosophy was the logical end point of atheism.

I may be tempted into picking up this book, though I'm not a reader of the thriller genre.

I read it a few months ago and found it enjoyable. What surprised me about it was how incredibly politically incorrect it was, from a number of different angles, so much so that I'm sort of surprised it got published. I'd love to illustrate my point by describing the very un-pc and funny climactic fight scene, but I don't want to ruin it for you. :)