From your writerwhose work has been called “truly, hellishly gritty” (LA Times)comes a gnarled secret with shades of Philip K. Dick and James Ellroy.

Within a parallel forseeable future, a ship named to get a jellyfishsinks in to the Caribbean using its captain chained to the mast. Left out is alogbook lacking ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggledcocaine, and a almost completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor’s sister, and RedMeans, his erstwhile company, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean andback because they try to unravel a mystery that quickly widens from loss of life at seato worldwide conspiracy.

With verve and humor to match the Illuminatus! trilogy,Nisbet provides fashioned an participating facsimile of our contemporary world, albeit withsnappier dialogue, amped-up technology, and even more clearly mentioned politicalprejudices. “Neither Norman Mailer nor Truman Capote has in their composing beenable to produce such an strength as Nisbet has achieved,” writes Germany’s DieWelt. Grab Windward Passage and see why.