The actions of three top administration officials -- Karl Rove, Paul O'Neill and Dick Cheney -- have raised serious questions about possible financial conflicts.
But the text is informed and witty, the North Korean scenes sketched with what reads like first-hand knowledge, and there is an engaging take on cultural preoccupations from Karl Marx to Jean-Paul Sartre and Bob Dylan, played out against the unlikely skyline of Pyongyang with its empty boulevards and permanently unfinished multi-storey hotels.
Wigan looked set for victory when winger Karl Pryce leapt highest to claim Paul Deacon's bomb and go over for an early try (the 50th of his career), Pat Richards pulling the touchline conversion just wide.