The Arrest: A Novel

From the award-winning creator of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an totally unique post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the person that got here between them, and a nuclear-powered tremendous automobile.

The Arrest isn’t post-apocalypse. It isn’t a dystopia. It isn’t a utopia. It’s simply what occurs when a lot of what we take as a right—vehicles, weapons, computer systems, and airplanes, for starters—quits working. . . . 

Earlier than the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a fairly good life as a screenwriter in L.A.  An outdated school pal and writing associate, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had turn out to be one of the highly effective males in Hollywood. That didn’t damage. 

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 meals grown by his sister, Maddy, at her natural farm. However then Todbaum reveals up in a unprecedented car: a retrofitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. Todbaum has spent the Arrest smashing his method throughout a fragmented and phantasmagorical United States, trailing enmities all the best way. Plopping again into the siblings’ life along with his typical odious panache, his motives are completely unclear.  Can it’s that Todbaum needs to supply yet another extravaganza? No matter he’s as much as, it might fall to Journeyman to cease him. 

Written with unrepentant pleasure and shot by means of with simply the correct amount of latest dread, The Arrest is speculative fiction at its absolute best.