Given that the Heat won the NBA championship last year, it's tempting to think that the secret behind Miami's success isa Marvel-Comics-type alliance of superheroes.
Like all Mr Jacob's books, this isa literary marvel, full of wit, erudition and wisdom, and it deals with one of the fundamental questions of human existence.
It's not difficult to guess where this is heading -- Marvel stories are all permutations on a handful of stock scenarios -- but Favreau doesn't blow it up any more than he has to.