SOURCE: "A Bad Week for the President," in The New York Times Book Review, January 13, 1991, p. 7.

In the following review, Galbraith provides a tempered assessment of The Fourth K, praising Puzo's narrative ability but finding the novel's plot implausible.

Some 30 years ago in India, Edward Durrell Stone designed a handsome residence for the American Ambassador, in which my wife and I were the first residents. On occasion, passers-by wandered in to look at the rather magnificent reception area; once, after a somewhat questionable political conversation with a high Indian official, we walked out of my study to find that another and somewhat antipathetic politician had strolled in to listen to our conversation through the open grillwork that was a feature of Stone's architecture.

In recent times back in India I found the whole house and embassy completely surrounded by high, formidable and very ugly concrete walls. Entry now...