EAN: 9780062938787

THE ARREST - JONATHAN LETHEM GEBUNDEN

From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly
original post-collapse yarn about two siblings  the man that came between them  and a
nuclear-powered super car.The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a
utopia. It's just what happens when much of what we take for granted-cars  guns  computers  and
airplanes  for starters-quits working. . . .Before the Arrest  Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably
good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner  the charismatic
and malicious Peter Todbaum  had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't
hurt.Now  post-Arrest  nothing is what it was. Sandy  who calls himself Journeyman  has landed
in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers the food grown by his sister  Maddy 
at her organic farm. But then Todbaum shows up in an extraordinary vehicle: a retrofitted
tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. Todbaum has spent the Arrest smashing his way
across a fragmented and phantasmagorical United States  trailing enmities all the way. Plopping
back into the siblings' life with his usual odious panache  his motives are entirely unclear.
Can it be that Todbaum wants to produce one more extravaganza? Whatever he's up to  it may fall
to Journeyman to stop him.Written with unrepentant joy and shot through with just the right
amount of contemporary dread  The Arrest is speculative fiction at its absolute finest.

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