When All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one of our few national galleries of character." Diana Trilling, reviewing it for the Nation, wrote, "For sheer virtuosity, for the sustained drive of its prose, for the speed and the evenness of its pacing, for its precision of language...I doubt indeed whether it can be matched in American…
Mayor Twistle is one of the richest men in Wildpool. But when it comes to helping the poor, his hands are kept firmly in his pockets. It's about time the tables were turned! On the other side of the town, Smiff Smith is enrolling at the world's first Crime Academy. He knows his life will never be the same again, but he has no idea the adventures that lie in store or the danger he's about to face!