"I'm sure Webster's big book has a definition for the word 'utopia' somewhere between "absurd" and "zeal," and I'm pretty sure it says something about it being a paradise-like society where only happy things occur, but I'm not so sure that I'd fill out an application to live in a mile-high, inescapable pyramid where utopia is the absolute goal and its leader keeps a helmet in the freezer to stimulate his next big idea. But that's what happens in Steve Dupont's debut novel, Therein Lies the Problem; U.S. citizens who want all the negatives in life filtered out are crying to enter The Pyramid and promising their loyalty to a madman in Lester Ginn ...