Invisible Frontier: Exploring the Tunnels, Ruins, and Rooftops of Hidden New York
by L.B. Deyo, David Leibowitz

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Book Review: Superb
Summary: 5 Stars

What you have to understand about Invisible Frontier is that it's a series of explorations layered on explorations. The phyisical discoveries and adventures are woven into intellectual discoveries and adventures. The reader follows our heroes into the ruins of Riverside Hospital, but also follows them into the past, when Typhoid Mary was quarantined there, and also into the churning chaos of the river that surrounds her island, and into the mathematics that govern that chaos, and into the agony of the shipwrecked souls who died just offshore in that turbulence.

The authors bring a light touch to their narrative. Their criticisms of contemporary life are trenchant and hilarious, but no more acerbic than their self-assessments. They frankly admit their doubts, and the absurdity of their conceits. It would have been easy indeed for them to leave out the failures, such as their inability to penetrate the Trilateral Commission headquartes. By leaving the failures in, they greatly enhance the thrill of their successes, and lend a gravity to their adventures. I enjoyed their misses as much as their hits.

I won't leave off without mentioning that their last chapter is the best bit of writing about 9/11 I have yet read. It is light, subtle, but deeply moving and beautiful. Don't miss this book.

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