Bookplanet: Michiko Kamikaze deep-throats Caputo

NY Times Book Critic Michiko Kamikaze mostly kills novels, because not very many terribly good novels get written, and the Kamikaze is an honest woman. But here she comes with a rave, which is something she very seldom does. So it looks like Philip Caputo has hit one right out of the park. Sample:
"Philip Caputo's devastating new novel, 'Acts of Faith,' will be to the era of the Iraq war what Graham Greene's novel 'The Quiet American' became to the Vietnam era: a parable about American excursions abroad and the dangers of missionary zeal, a Conradian tale about idealism run amok, capitalistic greed sold as paternalistic benevolence, ignorance disguised as compassion. The novel reads like a combination of Robert Stone (without the drugs), V. S. Naipaul (without the snobbery) and Joan Didion (without the staccato prose) - a modern day 'Nostromo' that reverberates with echoes from today's headlines."
Dear reader, take that to the bank. I know she gave McEwan's Atonement a bit of rave too, and it was merely good, but this looks like the real thing. Maybe a little over-enthusiastic (hey, Nostromo is the best novel by one of the best novelists who ever lived), but I for one am putting my name down at the library. If I had a full-time job, I'd go and read the first page at Barnes and Noble and buy it.