The Blinds : A Novel
Author(s): Adam Sternbergh
BOLO Top Read of 2017
PopSugar Best Book of 2017
From the Edgar Award-nominated author of Shovel Ready, a blistering new thriller that Dennis Lehane calls “propulsive and meaningful”
For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, the Coen Brothers, and Lost
Imagine a place populated by criminals—people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who’ve been granted new identities and a second chance. Welcome to The Blinds, a dusty town in rural Texas populated by misfits who don’t know if they’ve perpetrated a crime or just witnessed one. What’s clear to them is that if they leave, they will end up dead.
For eight years, Sheriff Calvin Cooper has kept an uneasy peace—but after a suicide and a murder in quick succession, the town’s residents revolt. Cooper has his own secrets to protect, so when his new deputy starts digging, he needs to keep one step ahead of her—and the mysterious outsiders who threaten to tear the whole place down. The more he learns, the more the hard truth is revealed: The Blinds is no sleepy hideaway. It’s simmering with violence and deception, aching heartbreak and dark betrayals.
Review(s):
“Eerie. . . . Sternbergh’s characters are intriguing, his plot is suspenseful and his outlook is endearingly dark. . . . Sternbergh is an original, grandly irreverent writer.”
“A thrilling Western unlike any you’ve read before.”
“Expertly melds the thriller and the Western. . . . Truly original.”
“Crackles with noirish delights. . . . Sternbergh writes a beautiful sentence, even when the subject is mayhem, and he has a talent for lean, propulsive plotting.”
“Sternbergh shows again why he is one of the most inventive thriller writers working today.”
“A tense, broiling, 21st-century Western with a crafty premise.”
“The newest release from the riveting Adam Sternbergh.”
“A quick-paced story of crime and deception.”
“[An] exciting new thriller. . . . This book doesn’t pull any punches.”
“Guilt, memory, and redemption swirl through this inventive science fiction-based thriller.”
ISBN: 9780062661357