From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy Lynn's Long
Halftime Walk comes a brilliant and propulsive new novel about greed,
power, and American complicity set in Haiti
Haiti, 1991. When a violent coup d'état leads to the fall of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, American expat Matt Amaker is forced
to abandon his idyllic, beachfront scuba business. With the rise of a
brutal military dictatorship and an international embargo threatening to
destroy even the country's most powerful players, some are looking to
gain an advantage in the chaos-and others are just looking to make it
through another day.
Desperate for money--and survival--Matt teams up with his best friend
and business partner Alix Variel, the adventurous only son of a socially
prominent Haitian family. They set their sights on legendary shipwrecks
that have been rumored to contain priceless treasures off a remote
section of Haiti's southern coast. Their ambition and exploration of
these disastrous wrecks come with a cascade of ill-fated incidents--one
that involves Misha, Alix's erudite sister, who stumbles onto an
arms-trafficking ring masquerading as a U.S. government humanitarian aid
office, and rookie CIA case officer Audrey O'Donnell, who finds herself
doing clandestine work on an assignment that proves to be more difficult
and dubious than she could have possibly imagined.
Devil Makes Three's depiction of blood politics, the machinations of
power, and a country in the midst of upheaval is urgently and
insistently resonant. This new novel is sure to cement Ben Fountain's
reputation as one of the twenty-first century's boldest and most
perceptive writers.
