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Overlook Pr
May 2010
On Sale: April 29, 2010
448 pages
ISBN: 1590201949
EAN: 9781590201947
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Winner of San Francisco Book Festival's Best Sci Fi Book! From the writer whose work has been called "truly, hellishly
gritty" (Los Angeles Times) comes a gnarled mystery with
shades of Philip K. Dick and James Ellroy. Jim Nisbet is a cult favorite in Europe and it's easy to see
why. He's "a lot more than just good . . . his style has
overtones of Walker Percy's smooth southern satin, but his
characters--losers, grifters, con men--hark back to the days
of James M. Cain's twisted images of morality," writes the
Toronto Globe-Mail. In the tradition of Jim Thompson and
Damon Runyon, Jim Nisbet is too good to miss and Windward
Passage is a masterpiece that raises the bar even for a
master like Nisbet. In the parallel near-future, a ship named for a jellyfish
sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the
mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages,
presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and
a nearly- completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor's sister,
and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San
Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to
unravel a mystery that rapidly widens from death at sea to
international conspiracy. With verve and humor to match the Illuminati Trilogy, Nisbet
has fashioned an engaging facsimile of our modern world,
albeit with snappier dialogue, amped-up technology, and even
more clearly stated political prejudices. "Neither Norman
Mailer nor Truman Capote has in their writing been able to
produce such an intensity as Nisbet has achieved," writes
Germany's Die Welt. Pick up Windward Passageand see why.
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