Big If - Softcover

Costello, Mark

3.09

378 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156027798 ISBN 13: 9780156027793

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2003

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In the wake of her father's death and the vice president's campaign for the presidency, young Secret Service agent Vi Asplund returns to her New Hampshire home to the side of her eccentric computer genius brother, who is poised to make a fortune on a nihilistic video game. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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PRAISE FOR "BIG IF"
"He has created a thoroughly original universe . . . With his second novel, Costello enters the big leagues of American fiction."--Jay McInerney," The New York Times Book Review"
"Each page of this governmental novel comes alive with intelligence, comedy, and inside dope."--Jonathan Franzen
"A supremely funny and engaging novel of great seriousness about family life, about the American small town under the influence of global forces, about the fear of death . . . Costello has done it, with energy, brilliance, and the shifting intonations of a great improv actor in the realm of lasting truths."--Vince Passaro, "O Magazine"
PRAISE FOR "BIG IF"

"He has created a thoroughly original universe . . . With his second novel, Costello enters the big leagues of American fiction."--Jay McInerney, " The New York Times Book Review"

"Each page of this governmental novel comes alive with intelligence, comedy, and inside dope."--Jonathan Franzen

"A supremely funny and engaging novel of great seriousness about family life, about the American small town under the influence of global forces, about the fear of death . . . Costello has done it, with energy, brilliance, and the shifting intonations of a great improv actor in the realm of lasting truths."--Vince Passaro, "O Magazine"
The only great novel ever written about the Secret Service. Part thriller, part black comedy, it belongs on the same high shelf as the best books of Don DeLillo and Jonathan Franzen.--Ben Dolnick

About the Author:

Mark Costello worked as a federal prosecutor for five years before writing Bag Men, his first novel, under the name John Flood. He lives in New York.

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