text: A worthy follow-up to the first book  The heroic, anti-hero continues a few year after the first book, he knows that he is kidding himself that things will work out but that is a coping mechanism for him to keep doing things that he knows need to be done - even if it has a good chance of killing him  Its no homage to the western 'True Grit' but to me, there are echo's of its underlying ethos