From its opening pages—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head—Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between moments of lucidity and days when he doesn't seem to be living his own life at all. Remy has a new girlfriend he doesn't know, a son who pretends he's dead, and an unsettling new job chasing a trail of paper scraps for a shadowy intelligence agency known as the Department of Documentation. Whether that trail will lead Remy to an elusive terror cell—or send him circling back to himself—is only one of the questions posed by this provocative yet deeply human novel.
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"Jess Walter is a Literary Talent Writ Large."
Praise for Citizen Vince:"Citizen Vince is fast, tough, thoughtful and funny. I loved this novel." -- Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and A Long Way Down
Praise for Citizen Vince:"Wonderfully written. compelling." -- Los Angeles Times
Praise for Land of the Blind:"Walter is at his incisive best. .hypnotically compelling." -- Publishers Weekly
"Perceptive, ingenious satire.fascinating and important" -- BookPage
Praise for Over Tumbled Graves:"Riveting. An outstanding mystery debut." -- Washington Post Book World
Praise for Citizen Vince:"Entertaining. refreshing. [with] very wry precision and expert timing." -- New York Times
Praise for Land of the Blind:"Absorbing. Walter renders his blind land with clear-eyed, compassionate wisdom." -- Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Over Tumbled Graves:"Suspenseful, challenging and intelligently written." -- Dallas Morning News
"A ridiculously talented writer." -- New York Times
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