Iain Levison — новинки

"Philip Dixon is down on his luck. A hair-raising escape from a lucrative but botched bank robbery lands him gushing blood and on the verge of collapse in a quaint college town in New Hampshire. How can he find a place to hide out in this innocent setting? But peering into the window of the nearest house, he sees a glimmer of hope: a man in his mid-thirties, obviously some kind of academic, is rolling around on the living-room floor with an attractive high-school student ... And so Professor Elias White is blackmailed into harbouring a dangerous fugitive, as Dixon - with a cool quarter-million in his bag and dreams of Canada in his head -…

[A] dark, satirical comedy. . . . Written with the same kind of deadpan humor Levison used so well in his first book." "USA Today" "A gleeful satire. . . . It s an amusingly bleak little (im)moral fable." "Detroit Free Press" "Exciting, funny, poignant and sociologically important." "The Chicago Tribune" "Levison s irony is acute as he caricatures the working world s groundlings." "The New York Times Book Review" The work Jake Skowran is offered is a lot less than legal. He s got little choice except to take it. The guys who owned the factory have left town for someplace where there s more sun and cheaper labor. The deserted plant is…