The Arrest

From the awardwinning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original postcollapse yarn about two siblings the man that came between them and a nuclearpowered super car The Arrest isn t postapocalypse It isn t a dystopia It isn t a utopia It s just what happens when much of what we take for grantedcars guns computers and airplanes for startersquits working Before the Arrest Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in LA 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 postArrest 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 tunneldigger 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