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<p class="null1">Winner of San Francisco Book Festival's Best Sci Fi Book!</p> <p class="null1">From the writer whose work has been called "truly, hellishly gritty" (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>) comes a gnarled mystery with shades of Philip K. Dick and James Ellroy.</p> <p>Jim Nisbet is a cult favorite in Europe and it's easy to see why. He's "a lot more than just good . . . his style has overtones of Walker Percy's smooth southern satin, but his characters—losers, grifters, con men—hark back to the days of James M. Cain's twisted images of morality," writes the Toronto <i>Globe-Mail</i>. In the tradition of Jim Thompson and Damon Runyon, Jim Nisbet is too good to miss and <i>Windward Passage</i> is a masterpiece that raises the bar even for a master like Nisbet.</p> <p>In the parallel near-future, a ship named for a jellyfish sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and a nearly- completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor's sister, and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to unravel a mystery that rapi

Who reads Windward Passage : A Novel?

Author

Jim Nisbet

Publisher

The Overlook Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590201947

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Engineering, Thriller, Literary Fiction

Rating

2.86 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14