{"product_id":"9781557134332","title":"Novel Explosives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\" \u003ci\u003e[Novel Explosives]\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating book, it's a difficult book, and it's a pleasure to be able to introduce it to you. I think that this is what my program \u003ci\u003eBookworm\u003c\/i\u003e is for: to find books like this that are of enormous ambition and largely unknown to readers, and say, 'Hey, get out there! Order the book! Try this out! You haven't seen anything like this before!'\" —Michael Silverblatt, \u003ci\u003eBookworm\u003c\/i\u003e , 89.9 FM, KCRW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . big, brainy, trippy, Technicolor noir . . .\" —Starred \u003ci\u003eKirkus Review\u003c\/i\u003e , August 15, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An amazing novel, a literary masterpiece that reads like a thriller . . . the most fun reading I’ve had in ages.\" —Steven Moore, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Novel: An Alternative History\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the week after Easter, April 13–20, 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate in the week, a man wakes up in Guanajuato, Mexico, with his knowledge intact, but with no sense of who he is or how he came to Guanajuato. His only clues are a driver's license and ATM card, both of which are in the name of Alvaro de Campos, one of the heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarlier in the week, a man sits at his desk in an office tower in Santa Monica, California, attempting to complete his memoirs after twenty-five years in the venture business. Unfortunately, one of his current deals may be a money-laundering scam, and its lead investor has been calling him in the night, not only demanding his money back, but citing the relevant passages from Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in the middle of the week, just before dawn on April 15, two gunmen arrive at an El Paso motel to retrieve a duffel bag stuffed full of currency, and eliminate the man who brought it to El Paso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus begins the three-stranded narrative of \u003ci\u003eNovel Explosives\u003c\/i\u003e , a search for identity that travels through the worlds of venture finance, the Juárez drug wars, and enhanced-lethality thermobaric weaponry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJim Gauer \u003c\/b\u003e is a mathematician, widely published poet, and possibly the world's only Marxist Venture Capitalist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Green Integer Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050366714096,"sku":"9781557134332","price":11.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781557134332_p0.jpg?v=1763755531","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781557134332","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}