"Published near the end of WWII, Bruce Hutchison's only novel, The Hollow Men (1944), is a rarely-mentioned portrait of a journalist named Leslie Duncan who is torn between his father's beloved Cariboo ranch and his political responsibilities in both Washington, D.C., and Ottawa ("the counterfeit little world on Parliament Hill";) during WWII. Leslie Duncan yearns to be something more than another of the "hollow men"; described in T.S. Eliot's famous poem. The Hollow Men is an unusually sophisticated portrayal of both the country life of ranchers and the limitations of politics." --abcbookworld.com.