style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Philip Roth recently confessed to an interviewer that old age had beaten him and that Nemesis (2010) was his last book. Roth is 79. Herman Wouk is 97 and made of sterner stuff. The Pulitzer winning author of The Caine Mutiny (1951) and The Winds of War (1971) refuses to give up the game. The Lawgiver is merely the latest work in a 70-year career and there are hints of more to come.