Ward Just's The American Ambassador is vivid, dense, psychologically intriguing, suspenseful, and even philosophical, without slowing the action. Much of the novel is told from the point of view of the various characters so we get inside the heads of the Ambassador Bill North, his wife Elinor, their anarchist son Bill, Jr, who when he joins a terrorist group calls himself Wolf, and his slightly autistic girl friend Gert. The novel covers at least twenty years, so we can see how Wolf becomes an anarchist by his almost willful misunderstanding his parents and grandparents. When he decides to kill his father, the suspense ramps up, and reaches a highly emotional climax which includes a debate about what his action might actually accomplish that really makes you stop and think.
This novel is so good I wonder why it is not better known.
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