![]() After, he thought of his chronic philandering as a sardonic riposte to the lies of the totalitarian state-until an angelic 15-year-old girl came to him with a terrible problem that awakened his conscience to action. The child of a top-ranking bureaucrat and a seductively manipulative, covertly crazy academic, he published a scandalous poem in his 20s containing an obscene acrostic jibe at both his mother and socialism. “In fact, that’s his whole brand now: purity.” The story of Andreas’ East German youth, however, is anything but clean. Where WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are “dirty,” “Wolf is still reasonably pure,” one of Pip’s Occupy friends explains. Then the narrative shifts to Andreas Wolf, a German who specializes in exposing shameful secrets on the Internet via an outfit he calls the Sunlight Project. ![]() ![]() Skeptical, loyal, self-deprecating, determined, Pip provides the novel with a grounding sensibility. ![]()
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