CATCH-22, published in 1961, immediately became a classic. It captured the hilarious and tragic insanity of the times and galvanised the conscience of a generation. Now Joseph Heller has written the sequel…Closing Timerevisits many of the characters, now older if not wiser, that madeCatch-22so unforgettable, all linked in uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End.Closing Timeis a stunning achievement, a work of breathtaking erudition, insight and inventiveness, chilling in its depiction of the moral collapse of the Western world as well as very funny in its black comedy.