Adam Sternbergh. Crown, $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-34899-7
A dirty bomb explosion in Times Square leaves New York City half-emptied, save for the rich and the poor, in Sternberg’s first novel, a low-rent Raymond Chandler noir told in the style of very late James Ellroy. A former sanitation worker who calls...
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Adam Sternbergh. Crown, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-34902-4
The dirty bomb that turned New York City into a wasteland in 2013’s Shovel Ready continues to have reverberations in this solid sequel. To escape the grittiness of reality, many of the wealthy lose themselves in the virtual world of the limnosphere.
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Adam Sternbergh. Ecco, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-266134-0
Guilt, memory, and redemption swirl through this inventive science-fiction-based thriller from Edgar-finalist Sternbergh (Shovel Ready). In Caesura, an isolated Texas town that’s part penal colony, part rehabilitation experiment, Sheriff Calvin...
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Adam Sternbergh. Flatiron, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-85566-4
At the start of this outstanding psychological thriller from Edgar finalist Sternbergh (The Blinds), seemingly picture-perfect Gotham pair Daisy, an actor, and Craig, a frustrated writer moldering as a “brand advocate,” are observing their second...
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