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Seven Down
By (author):
David Whitton
David Whitton
Imprint:
Rare Machines - TorontoISBN:
9781459748576Product Form:
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Paperback
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English
Audience:
General Trade
Nov 02, 2021
$21.99 CAD
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Dimensions:
8.5in x 5.5 x 1 in | 240 grPage Count:
200 pages
Dundurn Press
Rare Machines
FICTION / Epistolary
Fiction: general and literary|Epistolary fiction
Toronto
Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best First Novel 2022, Short-listed
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- Author Bio
- Reviews
In a series of interviews, seven hotel employees — all, it turns out, sleeper agents — puzzle out the events of a botched assassination attempt.
Seven ordinary hotel employees. Catering, front desk, management. Seven moles, waiting for years for a single code word, a trigger that will send them into action in a violent event that will end their dull lives as they know them.
The event has failed: the action was a disaster. Each employee is being debriefed by an agent of an invisible organization. These are the transcripts of these interviews. What they reveal is not just the intricate mechanism of an international assassination, but the yearnings inside each of its pawns, the desperation and secret rage that might cause anyone of us to sign up, sell out, and take a plunge into darkness.
Both sinister and absurd, this set of interview transcripts is a puzzle to be solved, a comedy, and a panorama of life. At once sociological, satirical, and scary, it paints portraits of the mundane human failings behind geopolitical machinations.
Story setting: Toronto
Seven ordinary hotel employees. Catering, front desk, management. Seven moles, waiting for years for a single code word, a trigger that will send them into action in a violent event that will end their dull lives as they know them.
The event has failed: the action was a disaster. Each employee is being debriefed by an agent of an invisible organization. These are the transcripts of these interviews. What they reveal is not just the intricate mechanism of an international assassination, but the yearnings inside each of its pawns, the desperation and secret rage that might cause anyone of us to sign up, sell out, and take a plunge into darkness.
Both sinister and absurd, this set of interview transcripts is a puzzle to be solved, a comedy, and a panorama of life. At once sociological, satirical, and scary, it paints portraits of the mundane human failings behind geopolitical machinations.
Story setting: Toronto
- A fantastically puzzling debut novel about the lives of seven hotel employees — all, it turns out, sleeper agents
- Give this to readers of Fredrik Backman (Anxious People, A Man Called Ove), Matt Haig (The Midnight Library), and David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)
- Following the epistolary style, the narrative unfolds in the transcriptions of interviews conducted with the seven moles involved in a botched assassination attempt
- Author's previously published story collection showcased his gift for different voices in first-person narratives
- Publicity campaign to targeted media and influencers
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- Digital galley available: NetGalley, Edelweiss, Catalist
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Whitton pens a debut that is both comedic and introspective, skewering the attempts of an organization trying to find out what went wrong with the group of people it tried so hard to manipulate. This one is perfect for fans of quirky novels like those of Fredrik Backman and Jennifer Egan. - Booklist
In Seven Down David Whitton shines klieg lights on the human condition with all its yearning, existential anxiety, and ridiculousness. With just the right amount of whodunnit and whydunit, this loopy and exhilaratingly tangential spy novel keeps the reader’s synapses firing on all cylinders. - Zsuzsi Gartner, author of Better Living through Plastic Explosives and The Beguiling
Wildly original, economically written, profound, and very "now", Seven Down is a breath of fresh, vibrant literary air. - Kid Ferrous Reviews
Incredibly original! The writing is flawless, effortlessly weaving the events of the day together through the voices of seven sleeper agents, each with a distinct and unique personality creating a rich in-depth story you cannot possibly put down! - Partridge Pages
A witty, sharply written and concise story. - Boyd Blog
Hilarious and haunting… combines the paranoid atmosphere of Don DeLillo with the bureaucratic procedure and spy tradecraft of John le Carré, while evoking both laughter and horror. - Winnipeg Free Press
Highly amusing, and a much-needed antidote to the writings of too many spy novelists. - Ottawa Review of Books
