"I am a crook just like every other law-abiding citizen." That is how the protagonist of this surreal tragicomic novel introduces himself. "A law-abiding citizen is just someone who hasn't been caught." Once an international concert pianist whose travels afforded a convenient cover for clandestine services for spy agencies, he is now condemned to live out his life on commercial airplanes, never being able to set foot outside an airport. This is how...