Cleverly constructed and compulsively readable. When people talk about the difference between literature and genre fiction, Goldman, who wrote The Princess Bride and Marathon Man, is the sort of author who throws a monkey wrench in the works. I'd put the brilliant Ira Leven (Deathtrap and Rosemary's Baby) in the genre category, but Goldman reminds me of writers like Wodehouse and J.B. Priestly.

Control really should have a wider audience.