It's a good read, with some amusing observations and character sketches and a fast-moving story.
" Kids and faculty at Harvard, in Cambridge and abroad, involved in under-the-radar intrigue, written by someone who seems to know.
" Between 2 and 3 stars, but since I tend to like things that touch on Africa, I'll give it 3. it was ok, but i did not feel much for any of the characters and knew what the ending had to be very early on. " also found this on some newspaper's best of 2009 list. " Not The Ugly American, but a pretty good modern story of CIA operative recruitment from the Ivys and operations in Africa. " pretty one-dimensional intrigue about ivy league universities, foreign policy, and africal. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.“McDonell’s dark, relentlessly readable latest swings back and forth between Harvard and Africa, and in both cases the education is indeed expensive.” “In the tradition of Greene and le Carré…McDonell writes about hot topics with a cool head, and his riveting novel should fuel an emotional response.” “McDonell’s third novel…introduces a spy who could easily have walked off the pages of le Carré’s better works…Teak is the most attractive fictional spy in quite some time.” Quoting Graham Greene in his epigraph, the author evokes the skills of the master, with a story that sticks in the mind.” “McDonell evokes the clandestine machinations of the US military and the thrusting students and weary academics at harvard with a heady versimilitude. “Smart and sexy…An Expensive Education blends a terse story of international intrigue with a biting satire of Harvard.” “An Expensive Education is terrific, a thriller noir that’s difficult to put down or forget. “An Expensive Education ingeniously combines elements of a le Carré or Grahame Greene–like international thriller with a campus novel set at Harvard.”
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