Economist Books of the Year
'Mark Costello's work should have been born with the words Great American Novel stamped on the front’
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Jonathan Franzen, author of 'The Corrections'
‘Mark Costello stakes out territory which you would never have guessed it was vital to read about'
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The Wall Street Journal
‘Fans of Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon may begin to think of Mark Costello in their company’
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David Foster Wallace
‘An unclassifiable tour de force that’s every bit as absorbing as it is original’
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Product Description
Meet Vi Asplund, a young Secret Service agent mourning her dead father. Meet her brother, Jens, who is poised to make a fortune on Big If, a nihilistic computer game aimed at teenagers. View American society as Vi sees it in those around her.
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About the Author
Mark Costello worked as a Federal Prosecutor for five years before writing his first novel, 'Bag Men'.
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