Title: A Man Under Authority
First published: May 1997
Description: In A Man Under Authority, his first novel, Reid Mitchell introduces us to a retired "enemy" colonel who is hired as a consultant by an American movie director. In his assignment, the colonel is forced to confront his own past while we the readers must draw our own conclusions about the public and private uses of memory, history and morality.
Subjects: New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general