"The Tower of Babel is an outstanding achievement by one of the great best-selling novelists of our time. Set in the Middle East, on the very brink of war, it portrays the Arab-Jewish confrontation with a sense of political reality that is both profound and startling.
"It is a measure of Morris West's power of understanding that in the age of the anti-hero he has written a novel in which every character can be termed a hero" (from book's dust jacket)
