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Mystery/Thriller Book Review: The House of Ashes by Stuart Neville Soho Crime, $27 95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-741-4

Mystery/Thriller Book Review: The House of Ashes by Stuart Neville Soho Crime, $27 95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-741-4
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Fiction Book Review: The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen Grove, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8021-5706-5

Bookshop The sequel to Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize–winning The Sympathizer is an exhilarating roller-coaster ride filled with violence, hidden identity, and meditations on whether the colonized can ever be free. The fractured, guilt-ridden narrator, a veteran of the South Vietnamese Army, where he was a mole for the communists, goes by his assumed name Vo Danh, which means “nameless.” He has survived reeducation and a refugee camp and is now living in early 1980s Paris, along with his devoutly anti-communist “blood brother,” Bon, who doesn’t know he was a double agent. Vo Danh starts selling hashish for a Viet-Chinese drug lord called the Boss, whom he and Bon met in their refugee camp. The gig has him more vexed about the crime of capitalism than that of drug dealing, and he’s not expecting a turf war. Indeed, he’s chagrined to discover his rivals, French Arabs who share with him a legacy of colonization, want him dead. Meanwhile, th

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