Winner of the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Best American Fiction "A rich and ingenious novel that succeeds brilliantly." -- The New York Times "Wonderful . Original . Terrific . Haunting . Reading Soldiers in Hiding is like watching a man on a high wire." -- Los Angeles Times "Intelligent and interesting . daring and entirely convincing.

" -- The Washington Post "Extraordinary . A feat of the imagination rendered with surprising skill . you'll remember this book for a long time." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Superb . First-rate . Ingeniously plotted with surprising twists and turns that continually move the story in unexpected directions." -- The Seattle Times "Satisfying . Draws the reader into a combination of surprising plot turns and richly textured characters.

" -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Richly imagined and wonderfully written . Richard Wiley is a first-rate talent." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "Admirable, smooth, dispassionate . for an American to write from a Japanese standpoint, regardless of how long he has studied their culture, is an act of extreme literary bravery." --The Christian Science Monitor "A work of exceptional power and imagination." -- Publishers Weekly "A mature novel . the spirit of Graham Greene is here." -- Kirkus Reviews.