Winter Warning

$25.95 U.S. | $34.95 CAN. “One of the most important WINTER WARNING writers in American literature.” —MICHAEL CHABON The climatic conclusion to the iconic Isaac Sidel mystery series, which finds PRAISE FOR JEROME CHARYN Charyn’s acclaimed hero facing his toughest showdown yet, this time as commander-in-chief . “He writes like “A contemporary “A realist of the greased lightning.” American Balzac.” urban nightmare.” Reflecting our own world like a volatile funhouse —TIME OUT NEW YORK —NEWSDAY —THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE mirror, Winter Warning lures us back to the 1980s, an era that could have been ripped right out of our “His sentences make a mournful and most recent political upheaval. Isaac Sidel should “A fearless writer. sensational clatter, like a series of butcher have been vice president, banished to some far corner Brave and brazen.” knives dropped on a cathedral floor.” of the West Wing, but the president-elect has been —NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS —JONATHAN YARDLEY forced to resign or face indictment for his crooked WINTER land deals—and Sidel becomes the accidental pres- JEROME CHARYN is the author of more than ident. He’s a maverick, a crusader with a Glock in fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, includ- “Absolutely unique among “Jerome Charyn: the his belt, who defies both the Republicans and the ing Jerzy: A Novel; A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson American writers.” unpredictable, elusive, Democrats. He seems haunted by Lincoln’s ghost, for the 21st Century; Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories; I and enigmatic.” and the presidential palace becomes his own “great —LOS ANGELES TIMES Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War; —JOYCE CAROL OATES white jail,” as it did for Harry Truman. and The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel. WARNINGAN ISAAC SIDEL NOVEL His greatest ally in Washington is not the Among other honors, he has been longlisted for Secret Service or the DNC, but a former Israeli the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for prime minister who was an explosives operative Biography and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner during the British occupation of Palestine. His only Award, was named a Commander of Arts and CHARYN JEROME companions in the White House are the captain Letters by the French Minister of Culture, and is of his helicopter fleet and a beautiful naval the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the intelligence officer—who quickly realizes that Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction JEROME something has gone amok at Camp David, when a from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. band of mercenaries arrive with their sights trained He lives in New York. on Sidel . JACKET DESIGN BY FACEOUT STUDIO, JEFF MILLER “Brilliantly conceived. A bizarre and moving JACKET IMAGERY BY ARCANGEL AND GETTYIMAGES CHARYN search-and-destroy mission [by] Isaac Sidel, the AUTHOR PHOTO CREDIT BY KLAUS SCHOENWIESE ISBN 978-1-68177-348-3 flintiest, least corrupt cop in New York.” 52595 “For a couple of decades now, Jerome Charyn has been remaking —TIME MAGAZINE ON THE ISAAC SIDEL PEGASUS BOOKS the detective story.” —THE WASHINGTON POST MYSTERY SERIES DISTRIBUTED BY W.W. NORTON & CO. 9781681 773483 WWW.PEGASUSBOOKS.COM.

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