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A Novel
Flatiron Books
October 2023
On Sale: September 26, 2023
544 pages
ISBN: 1250776511
EAN: 9781250776518
Kindle: B0BPQS5X9P
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Thriller Political | Historical
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy
Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk comes a brilliant and
propulsive new novel about greed, power, and American
complicity set in Haiti
Haiti, 1991. When a
violent coup d’état leads to the fall of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, American expat Matt Amaker
is forced to abandon his idyllic, beachfront scuba business.
With the rise of a brutal military dictatorship and an
international embargo threatening to destroy even the
country’s most powerful players, some are looking to
gain an advantage in the chaos–and others are just
looking to make it through another day.
Desperate
for money—and survival—Matt teams up with his
best friend and business partner Alix Variel, the
adventurous only son of a socially prominent Haitian family.
They set their sights on legendary shipwrecks that have been
rumored to contain priceless treasures off a remote section
of Haiti’s southern coast. Their ambition and
exploration of these disastrous wrecks come with a cascade
of ill-fated incidents—one that involves Misha,
Alix’s erudite sister, who stumbles onto an arms-
trafficking ring masquerading as a U.S. government
humanitarian aid office, and rookie CIA case officer Audrey
O’Donnell, who finds herself doing clandestine work on
an assignment that proves to be more difficult and dubious
than she could have possibly imagined.
Devil
Makes Three’s depiction of blood politics, the
machinations of power, and a country in the midst of
upheaval is urgently and insistently resonant. This new
novel is sure to cement Ben Fountain’s reputation as
one of the twenty-first century’s boldest and most
perceptive writers.
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