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Set in the Depression, this covers the story of desperate Americans emigrating to the "Workers' Paradise" of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Of course, what the fictional (but based on real historical) characters discovered was corruption, incompetence, and even worse poverty, along with violent repression. Garrido was especially damming of the willful and witting role played by the New York Times and other useful idiots in spreading Soviet propaganda, not only to the point of covering up Stalin's horrors visited upon his own people, but duping mass numbers of their own fellow-citizens to their deaths.
Garrido's writing style is passable but not likely to earn him any awards. His characters are lively and the story he covers is an engaging one. The book would make a fine accompaniment to the film Mr. Jones. A good read and worth a look.