Show Us Your Titus (Andronicus!)

I'm very happy about a bunch of Severance Package reviews that have popped up lately. Yesterday, the novel was featured in Patrick Anderson's "Monday Thrillers" column in the Washington Post, and offered up this bit that I want to tattoo on my right bicep: "At the very least, [Swierczynski's] written one of the most outrageously original spy thrillers I can remember." And he gives me credit for a Shakespeare reference that I didn't intend, but will brag about anyway.

Book Strumpet Clayton Moore called me a bastard, but liked the book anyway.

Bill Crider pointed out one of the novel's in-jokes in his very flattering review. (The commenters? Um, not so much.)

Wally Conger thinks that Severance is yes, a spy story, and a horror novel, but also a love story. I'm not going to disagree with him.

Update (6/11): Just to balance things out: Lee Goldberg doesn't like the book, and says I'm skating on flash.