Should readers loathe or sympathize with Max McLennons brother, Will?
SP: Will is a complex mixture of good and evil, strength and moral weakness. So our sympathies for him will vary from one moment to the next depending on what he’s doing. But I think most of us will identify with his feelings of anger and hurt, either from our own experience or that of someone we know. At the end-without giving away what that is-the conflicts he feels inside himself are resolved by the choices he makes, not imposed on him from the outside. Escaping self loathing -almost regardless of how it is done-is a moral victory that’s sympathetic. Do you think we’ve seen the last of high-profile white-collar crimes? SP: Not a chance. Not now, not in the future, not in America or anywhere else on the globe where humans can exploit fellow workers. In one way or another, “white collar crime” has always been with us, from the “fur collar” crime of the cave man to the “tunic collar” crime of the Roman Empire to the “church collar” crime of the middle ages to the white collar crime of
