![--Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal on <em>The Gun</em>](https://sohopress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/blog-00.png)
A thriller in the same elevated sense as is Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment or Camus’s The Stranger…. Nature versus nurture, free will versus fate: Such are the themes that flicker almost subliminally through this shocking narrative, which also emits echoes of Poe and Mishima.