Wayfaring stranger

So incredibly overwritten, I could barely stand to keep reading. But I did, until the bitter end. I found the characters unbelievable and flat, the dialogue stilted. The plot was far-fetched, even for Burke. Buried under there was a message about the bizarre anti-communist witchhunt and the evils of anti-semitism, plus hooray for the little guys/war heroes in their battles against the powerful and/or gangsters.