Description
A young man with a terrible past finds his unlikely protector: the oddly-altered enforcer of a backwater Florida town. Edgar Award-winner David Liss's latest novel reads like Hiaasen meets Crichton--a razor-sharp allegory pulled straight from today's headlines. "At once pulse-pounding and full of heart, this is a shape-shifting thriller that locks into your nerve-center and doesn't let go."
--Rhodi Hawk, author of This Town Won't Tell Who is Iliana Marek? Is she the bully who alongside her foster father police chief Bryce Hillard, controls and terrorizes Tylor, Florida? Or is she the reborn guardian angel of Dan Gibson, a social pariah responsible for the suicide of Faye Kristic, a death which he cannot remember ten years later. Dan's once-promising future is in tatters. He lives in an apartment on his estranged parents' property, works at a convenience store with a terrible boss, and is addicted to prescription drugs. But ten years after Faye's death, Iliana suddenly takes Dan's side, and a lot of bad people start dying fast. As Dan becomes entangled in the ensuing chaos, he needs to finally discover what part he played in the death of Faye Kristic, and why the changes to Iliana make her no longer entirely human.
Author: David Liss
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 10/13/2026
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781616964696
ISBN10: 1616964693
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Crime & Mystery
- Fiction | Thrillers | Supernatural
--Rhodi Hawk, author of This Town Won't Tell Who is Iliana Marek? Is she the bully who alongside her foster father police chief Bryce Hillard, controls and terrorizes Tylor, Florida? Or is she the reborn guardian angel of Dan Gibson, a social pariah responsible for the suicide of Faye Kristic, a death which he cannot remember ten years later. Dan's once-promising future is in tatters. He lives in an apartment on his estranged parents' property, works at a convenience store with a terrible boss, and is addicted to prescription drugs. But ten years after Faye's death, Iliana suddenly takes Dan's side, and a lot of bad people start dying fast. As Dan becomes entangled in the ensuing chaos, he needs to finally discover what part he played in the death of Faye Kristic, and why the changes to Iliana make her no longer entirely human.
Author: David Liss
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 10/13/2026
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781616964696
ISBN10: 1616964693
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Crime & Mystery
- Fiction | Thrillers | Supernatural
About the Author
David Liss is the author of fourteen novels, most recently The Peculiarities. His previous books include A Conspiracy of Paper, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and won the 2001 Barry, MacAvity and Edgar Awards. The Coffee Trader was also named a New York Times Notable Book and was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the year's 25 Books to Remember. He has worked on numerous comics projects, including Black Panther and Mystery Men for Marvel, The Spider and Green Hornet for Dynamite, and Angelica Tomorrow. Liss lives in San Antonio, Texas.