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.
