'Master Blaster' has a great sense of place, but the characters are less defined - Books

“Where I’ve been is what I write about,” P.F. Kluge says on his website. In his latest novel, “The Master Blaster”, sense of place not only stands at center stage, it elbows everything else into the wings. The setting is the Northern Marianas island of Saipan, a commonwealth of the United States since the late 1970s, but a place most Americans know absolutely nothing about.