Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: A finely crafted tale of honor and revenge

This is the best I have read so far in 1998. If you like Edgar-winner Thomas Cook's mysterious memory poems, you will love William Hoffman's tale of vengence and deceit. Our hero is a loser, a cranky ex-con who stubborness masks a cunning sense of survival and ability to dope out friend from foe. When he is accused of planting the bomb that takes out most of his blood kin, the fear of incarceration forces our hero to take matters into his own hands. With language both poetic and powerful, Hoffman draws you into the dark, steep mountains of West Virginia toward a elegant solution to a horrible crime. This is a keeper.