I really liked The Mezzanine (seriously, it's great) and have recommended it to a number of people. It's even one of my "top-five picks" on the new version of our backwardscity.net/bazaar page that Ezra hasn't put up yet.

So does this mean that I'm going to get a visit from the Secret Service? In Baker's latest novel, Checkpoint, two characters spent a great deal of their time discussing why and how to assassinate the president.

What's Baker thinking?