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THE
INVISIBLE WORLD is quite visible to John Smolens, who knows Boston—all
of New England--as if he has it trapped under his own literary
microscope. What you'll find when you look into his lens is that
Smolen's writing has more red blood in it, than blue."
--Jack Gantos
"John Smolens is that rare and gifted writer who can capture
both our exterior and interior worlds with equal dexterity, grace and
power. COLD is a novel so riveting you will absolutely not be able
to put it down, and these characters will stay with you long after
turning the last page."
--Andre Dubus III
(author of House of Sand and Fog)
"COLD is a
finely crafted, wild yarn set in the great north. John Smolens gives us
a suspenseful tale in a style somewhere between Jack London and Raymond
Chandler. A fine read."
--Jim Harrison
(author of
Legends of the Fall)
"COLD grabs you on the first page, and, like the snow swirling
around John Smolens' fascinating characters, the ice-hard prose pushed
under your collar and travels quickly down your spine. Soon you'll
be chilled to the bone, but you may not even notice because you'll be
too busy turning the pages. You must read COLD--preferably beside
a fire, under a blanket."
--William Martin
(author of
Back Bay, Cape Cod and Citizen
Washington)
"There's danger--sometimes
palpable, sometimes faint or comic, but nonetheless real--behind each of
these beautifully crafted stories in John Smolens' collection. The
sense of danger is what helps make these stroies beautiful and
compelling. Danger becomes a context for these stories and raises
their stakes so that it seems that if no life is safe then no life is
ordinary. Read the story "Cold," and you'll see the
method at work; read "Cold," and you won't close this book
again until you've read them all."
--Stuart Dybek
"At the center of this
taut novel is a young carpenter's search for moral certainty, in matters
of work and love and commitment, in modern America, where such quests
are an ordeal. The story is suspenseful, exciting, tender, often
humorous, and, above all, significant. John Smolens is a wise and
seasoned voice."
--Andre Dubus
Reviews
for THE
INVISIBLE WORLD
"With this novel of American paranoia, the two best-known
practitioners in that genre - Don DeLillo and James Ellroy - might be
justified in wondering if John Smolens is following them. In his fifth
book, although it is the first to be given a real publicity shove in
Britain, Smolens adds to the stack of novels - topped by DeLillo's Libra
and Ellroy's The Cold Six Thousand - that fret over and meddle with
events in Dallas on November 22 1963.
Its title nudging conspiratorially at hidden truths and governmental
subterfuge, The Invisible World builds its tension from a book within
the book. Sam Adams, a semi-retired Boston hack, believes that his dad,
a shadowy employee of Uncle Sam, was the second gunman on that Texas
day: the one, standing on the grassy knoll, who conspiracy theorists
believe really killed President Kennedy.
Sam's book, One True Assassin , a contribution to the shelves of family
confessionals that makes Mommie Dearest read like a mother's day card,
was rubbished by Senator Hume, a stickler for the official version, thus
burning Sam's career. When Sam's mother dies, her ashes are stolen from
the crematorium, apparently by his spooky and elusive father. In
recovering his mother's dust and confronting his father, the book's
anti-hero hopes finally to get the assassination story straight. But
Senator Hume is fighting a tight re-election race, and a colleague of
Sam's is shot in what may be a case of fatally mistaken identity.
Inevitably, most of the JFK fiction has been located in Dallas. What
makes The Invisible World distinctive is that it's a Boston book:
bringing the president's body home, as it were. Not only is the hero
named after a local beer, but Smolens sometimes seems to be writing for
people who are as familiar with the city as Samuel Adams himself.
Happenings are lovingly catalogued as a "Boston moment" and
there are reminiscences of several municipal occurrences: "At the
time the Hancock Tower was under construction and they were having
trouble with the large glass windows..." Local dignitaries,
literary and athletic, are also name-checked: "We talked about John
Updike's piece on Tad Williams's last game." Such details sometimes
build local colour for outsiders, but can also tend to lessen the
novel's heft beyond Boston Harbour.
Other references travel better. Smolens is excellent at physical detail,
such as the crunch of the sand left in freshly cooked clams. And, in a
paranoid thriller, it's a smart move to give the Adams clan a family
home in Salem, where the witches were hunted. Many works, most notably
Arthur Miller's The Crucible, have drawn a parallel between Salem and
McCarthyism, but the hysteria here works well as a backdrop to the
Kennedy assassination and other conspiratorial twistings.
As a character, Sam Adams has the drawback that the National Union of
Fictional Journalists must these days be refusing entry to any more
cynical but charismatic hacks whose taste for booze has not ruined their
nose for a yarn. His multi-orgasmic couplings with a much younger
journalist girlfriend make us wonder whether the writer has already cast
a Hollywood senior such as Clint Eastwood or Harrison Ford in a mental
movie version. However, the balance of his motivations - half good
citizen, half Oedipal son, healing the country by destroying his family
- is original and fascinating.
This is the first JFK-related thriller I've read since New York rather
than Dallas - the World Trade Centre, not the Texas Book Depository -
came to stand for the biggest modern crime against the American state.
And there's no doubt that the question of who exactly did away with JFK
has lost some resonance.
The novel also feels more historical than it should because, in its
later stages, when new conspiracy theories take hold that concern events
in Boston now rather than in Dallas then, there's surprisingly little
reflection of that contemporary engine of paranoia and rumour: the
internet. Imagine, if the web had existed when Kennedy was shot, what
skeins of theory and spirals of hypothesis there would now be. With
emails and text messaging, technology has finally caught up with the
human instinct to gossip.
However, in adding to the JFK speculations which were spread merely by
letter and telephone, John Smolens has written a poignant and literate
thriller which shows that a news story that reaches its 40th birthday
this year still has the power to haunt."
--The Guardian (London)
"Father-and-son conflicts always seem to work better when there's a
crime involved, preferably one of epic scope, like the one that John
Smolens depicts in THE INVISIBLE WORLD (Shaye Areheart, $22.95). His
protagonist, a slacked-off Boston journalist named Sam Adams, once wrote
a book accusing his absentee father, a shadowy presence who ''worked in
government (as opposed to for the government),'' of being the second
gunman on that grassy knoll in Dallas when J.F.K. was shot.
Understandably, relations between father and son have been strained ever
since. Now the old man's back in town, just long enough for Sam to
accuse him of silencing Sam's mother before she could deliver her
deathbed version of the conspiracy to a reporter. Smolens's sharp views
of places like Charlestown and Salem avoid the usual hometown
sentimentality, making a nice contrast with the mournful lyric voice he
uses for Sam's recollections of his miserable family life."
--The New York Times
"This novel of
conspiracy and political intrigue creates a heady atmosphere reminiscent
of Paul Auster...Smolen's spare style plays off nicely against the plot,
and elaborate tapestry of twists and contradictions. Smolens
(Cold) balances political commentary, excitement and heartbreak nicely,
moving his career forward with sure-footed style."
--Publishers Weekly
"Even if you're
weary of speculations about JFK and Dallas, this book is brilliant in
its details. The descriptions of people and places are memorable. And
its ghostly portrait of the Adams family will haunt you."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Crafted by a writer who's
good at atmospherics."
--Kirkus
"A
perfectly-paced thriller that gently pulls you in"
--The Daily Mirror (UK)
"Beautifully
written and absorbing"
--The Sunday Telegraph (UK)
"What
if your dad killed JFK and you'd spent your adult life trying to pin the
murder on him? That's the juicy premise here. Instead of going the
tabloid route, Smolens weaves a complex personal tale that examines the
terrible impact of an assassin's actions on the family so often left
behind. The son, Samuel Xavier Adams, a recovering journalist, can't
even hold a job at an alternative paper after sinister forces discredit
his Dallas expose, One True Assassin. The daughter dies after
being reduced to junkie-whore status with the help of dear old Dad's
Cuban associate. Their mother is snuffed on her deathbed as she's
telling a reporter about long-suffering years spent waiting for cryptic
calls from a husband devoted only to executing black-ops capers for the
government. When the hit man steals Mom's ashes, Sam decides to track
him down and finally blow the lid off the story. All good stuff, but
it's Sam's underlying quest--to find an emotional replacement for the
sister he loved so deeply--that proves achingly compelling."
--Booklist
"Smolens, who
heads up the masters creative writing program at Northern Michigan
University, is one of those just-under-the-radar guys who dapples just
enough in thrillerdom that the crit-geeks won't give him his literary
due. This effort, a smoothly efficient amalgam of Salem/Boston
atmosphere, the narrator/journalist's midlife crisis, a horribly
dysfunctional family that includes a witch/junkie and a dad who — by
the way — might have been the triggerman on the JFK assassination,
lures you in and snaps like a bear trap."
--The Day
"A dark
and engrossing literary thriller - written by the director of Northern
Michigan University Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program - is
a virtual funnel cloud that might leave you gasping for air. "The
Invisible World," by John Smolens (Shaye Areheart, 301 pages,
$22.95), is polished, entertaining and somberly gray. Smolens'
earlier work includes the 2001 novel "Cold," about what
happens when a prisoner escapes from an Upper Peninsula work camp, and a
short-story collection, "My One and Only Bomb Shelter." The
author will be at Shaman Drum 8 p.m. Dec. 16 to discuss "The
Invisible World."
The novel stars a not-very-patriotic Sam Adams, who in a book called
"One True Assassin" exposed his father, John, as the killer of
President Kennedy. As "The Invisible World" opens, Sam, now in
his 40s, is out of work as a journalist and tending to his dying mother
when in swoops the undetected father, who slips his wife poison and
later makes off with her ashes. The chase is on, as Sam tracks his
father. Gradually we learn that Sam and his mother and sister, Abigail,
had suffered greatly because of John. It's a sad family tale, and it
only gets worse when we learn that Abigail died of a drug
overdose. Smolens is a fine writer, once praised by Jim Harrison
as having a style somewhere between Jack London and Raymond Chandler. It
does keep you reading."
"Samuel Adams has
spent his life trying to discover the truth about his father. Why did he
keep disappearing from family life only to reenter for brief,
unannounced periods of time? What mysterious work did he perform for the
government? What was his father's role in the Kennedy assassination? As
Sam's mother lies dying at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, a reporter
leaks to Sam that she saw his father enter and exit from his mother's
room. Was he there to say his final goodbye or to stop her from telling
her story? A suspicious autopsy report and the realization that his
father has taken off with his mother's ashes send Sam off on the trail
of this enigma once again. The characters he meets, the motives he
exposes, and the puzzle he tries desperately to solve will keep the
reader in suspense. Smolens (Cold) once again proves that he clearly
possesses an uncanny ability to tell a disturbing story of intrigue.
Recommended for most collections."
--Library Journal
"Sam Adams has plenty to be gloomy about. His mother has just died.
He is still haunted by the suicide of his drugged-out younger sister.
And his father, a shadowy government operative who was almost never
around as a dad and who almost certainly played a role in the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has suddenly re-appeared,
just long enough to make away with mom's ashes. In addition, Sam's
career is in the toilet, largely thanks to his recent magnum opus, a
book in which the 40-something journalist tried unsuccessfully to prove
his father's role in the assassination.
Or did he? Because suddenly an awful lot of mysterious people want to
talk to him, mostly because they're looking for his dad. Then along
comes Petra, a warm and sensual young woman who, for her own hidden
reasons, might just as attracted to Sam's arcane memories as she is to
his somewhat prickly personality.
Thus does author John Smolens set in motion his fourth novel, The
Invisible World, a noir-ish literary thriller set mostly in the streets
of Boston and the snug harbors of Cape Cod.
Sam Adams narrates the tale himself (and could there possibly be a
better name for someone so closely tied to the lore of Boston?), and
even with all his introspection and misfortune he comes across as a
pleasant and engaging guide. His movements through the city set a tone
like that of a film shot in grainy black and white. It is a portentous
world of cold weather, low clouds and dark waters - gloomy yet never
quite crossing into gothic. His is a solitary stroll in which the more
ponderous events of the past are always whispering just over his
shoulder.
As Sam labors to elude his pursuers even as he attempts to track down
his father, he must again dig deep into the past, both his own and his
father's. While there are plenty of moments of high suspense along the
way - a few close shaves, a disappearance, a killing or two - it is the
slower moments that are more rewarding, often graced with pitch-perfect
observations, such as this one about Sam's troubled sister, Abby:
"Conversation with her was always like testing the ice on the pond
- she'd start out where it was safe and sidle out toward the middle,
until the sheet would begin to crackle and boom, and she'd inch her way
back toward shore."
At times, the book seems oddly underpopulated, as if half of Boston had
left town while the main characters played out their roles. But this
sparseness is at least partly due to the narrative mood. Sam has sealed
himself off from so much of the workaday world that he appears to be
going it alone, even when seated among thousands of fellow Red Sox fans
at Fenway Park.
The novel contains many allusions to the various conspiracy theories
surrounding the Kennedy assassination, but thankfully, it never comes
across as trying to solve the mystery. It is far more a well-told tale
about the way that obsessions - with theories, with fathers, with
failures - tend to take over lives, sometimes several lives at once, and
the manner in which the shadows of momentous events only seem to
lengthen over time, cloaking an ever larger crowd in their
darkness."
--The Baltimore Sun
"John Smolens's
"The Invisible World" has a nifty setup. Samuel X. Adams, a
Boston University grad and former reporter for the Boston Beacon, has
written a book in which he accuses his absentee father of participating
in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Years later, with his book
widely discredited, especially by an ambitious junior senator from
Massachusetts, Adams learns that a local journalist, Petra Mouzakis, has
been interviewing his mother as she lies dying at the Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute. When his mother succumbs to cancer, Adams's father resurfaces
briefly and, with all the stealth learned during his years in government
service, he makes off with his late wife's ashes. Mouzakis tells Adams
she believes she saw his father visit his mother in the days before she
died, and soon hospital officials are telling Adams they found traces of
a brain-damaging chemical in her blood.
And so we're entangled in a web with Adams. He's in danger, as is
Mouzakis, and the former junior senator, now running for attorney
general, reemerges with a new interest in what Adams knows about the
Kennedy assassination. Soon, Adams is trapped, not only in his Bunker
Hill neighborhood, but by memories of his childhood and the need to
reinvestigate his father and his activities almost 40 years earlier. But
the setup tells only some of what Smolens has achieved with his fourth
novel. "The Invisible World" is more than a first-rate
political thriller. It's an absorbing tale of alienation and loss, and
the ramifications of a rootless, troubled family. Adams, though nearly
50 years old, is a man without place, despite his affection for his
neighborhood, his memories of the hockey games at the old Garden, and,
most dear and troubling to him, his childhood in Salem, when his
promising sister fell prey to drugs and local lore, and his mother was
compelled to live a life not of her choosing. And then there's his
father, whom he's written about but doesn't really know. Thus, the
shadows Adams crosses on the streets of Boston and Salem compete with
the dark places in his regret-plagued mind, and he is never at ease.
Smolens manages all this without surrendering to sentimentality or
losing his grip on his mystery. It's an achievement, for "The
Invisible World" enriches us, and subtly provokes us, while
providing its chills and thrills."
--The Boston Sunday Globe
"Journalist
Samuel Xavier Adams's mother has just died of cancer. A strange man was
seen entering her room shortly before her death, her ashes are stolen
from the crematorium and the hospital pathologist is puzzled by a
substance he discovers in her body. Samuel is convinced his father, a
shadowy figure from the intelligence world who disappeared shortly after
the tragic events in Dallas on November 11, 1963, has returned. He's
been convinced for years his father was one of the men on the grassy
knoll.
As he tries to uncover the truth, he realizes that both he and his
father are being pursued by ruthless CIA operatives determined to
silence father and son and keep the details of what really happened in
Dallas buried for ever. An intriguing, exquisitely written conspiracy
thriller with a fresh take on the enduring controversy surrounding the
assassination of JFK."
--The Irish Independent, Dublin
"SAM ADAMS never really knew his father. Was this because Daddy
was jetting around the world working as an assassin for the American
Government? Sam writes a controversial book that places his father John,
gun in hand, on the grassy knoll above Dealey Plaza from where he shot
President Kennedy. Shortly after its publication the book’s findings
are contradicted by a congressman and Sam’s journalism career goes to
the dogs. Before long Sam and Petra, a sympathetic reporter who has also
been piecing together John’s secret history, find themselves beset on
all sides by sinister strangers and, before too long, even more sinister
corpses.
Never less than entertaining, Smolens’s superior thriller is utterly
absorbing when delving into the Byzantine mysteries that surround JFK’s
death.
The London Times
"Sam Adams has
plenty to be gloomy about in a new book, "The Invisible
World," by John Smolens, His mother has just died. He is
still haunted by the suicide of his drugged-out younger sister. And his
father, a shadowy government operative who was almost never around as a
dad and who almost certainly played a role in the assassination of
President Kennedy, has suddenly reappeared, just long enough to make
away with mom's ashes.
Thus does author John Smolens set in motion his fourth novel,
"The Invisible World," a noir-ish literary thriller set mostly
in the streets of Boston and the snug harbors of Cape Cod.
As Sam labors to elude his pursuers even as he attempts to track down
his father, he must again dig deep into the past, both his own and his
father's. While there are plenty of moments of high suspense along the
way - a few close shaves, a disappearance, a killing or two - it is the
slower moments that are more rewarding, often graced with pitch-perfect
observations, such as this one about Sam's troubled sister, Abby:
"Conversation with her was always like testing the ice on the pond
- she'd start out where it was safe and sidle out toward the middle,
until the sheet would begin to crackle and boom, and she'd inch her way
back toward shore."
--The Associated Press
"There have been many thrillers and, indeed, supposed
"true life" books that center on the killer(s) of John F.
Kennedy. In this one, though, written by a smoothly accomplished stylist
who heads the creative writing program at Northern Michigan University,
protagonist Samuel Adams must negotiate a midlife crisis, precipitated
by the death of his mother, that leads him to search for his long-gone
father about whom Sam wrote a famous book suggesting that the Old Man
killed the president.
Another journalist, Petra, following up on Adams' long-discredited work,
tells him she saw his father visiting his mother in the hospital just
before she died. Did Dad kill Mom and if so, why? Helpfully, Petra is a
fox who can supply Adams with a romantic reason to live as well as help
in his attempt to unravel the past but what if Sam's survival isn't in
Dad's plans?
Mr.
Smolens is also the author of Cold and Angel's Head, and
as always, his work is as much "literary" as
"thriller" with the most delicious elements of each."
--The Dallas Morning News
"Fathers, sons and spies are at the heart of the new novel by John Smolens, a talented author with a growing reputation. The book turns on a middle-aged narrator's search for the truth about his elusive father, who haunts him at every turn.
The narrator's father held a secretive job with "the government" that left his mother to raise two children essentially alone. The absence of the father and the love-hate dynamic it sets in motion drives the well-written and gripping story from beginning to end as Smolens takes two very different genres - the spy novel and the family saga - and blends them into an absorbing work of fiction."
--The Oakland Press
for
COLD
"Set in
Michigan's cold, harsh Upper Peninsula, this third novel by Smolens
(Angel's Head, etc.) uses its frigid backdrop as the perfect setting for
an astute examination of six lives wrecked by fate, betrayal and
tragedy. Norman Haas, an inmate at a nearby prison, turns up nearly
frozen and starved on the isolated property of Liesl Tiomenen, a widow
whose life was derailed by the deaths of her husband and daughter in a
car crash. Liesl has a gun, and she decides to escort Norman into town
on foot, since the snow is too deep for driving. When she falls and
can't get up again, Norman leaves her alone in the snow. Though he was
jailed for assaulting his older outlaw brother, Warren, and pill-popping
girlfriend, Noel, who were cheating on him together, Norman still loves
Noel and is determined to return and set things straight. Heading home
through a relentless blizzard, he picks up Noel and their three-year-old
daughter, Lorraine, and together the three hole up in a lodge deep in
the snowy woods. Meanwhile, Liesl has been rescued; recovering, she
joins forces with dogged local sheriff Del Maki to find Norman, though
both suspect he got a raw deal from the law. When all of the major
players including treacherous Warren and Noel's sinister father come
together for the final confrontation, nothing prepares the reader for
the startling chain of events that lead to a violent, shattering ending.
Smolens's skill in rendering scenes of stunning brutality and uncommon
tenderness, his crisp dialogue, vigorous writing style and keen
descriptive powers all make this a first-rate thriller. Agent, Noah
Lukeman. (Sept.)Forecast: A rave blurb from Jim Harrison suggests the
cut-above quality of this excellent thriller. Smolens's previous novels
were critically acclaimed, and this one should help build his
readership."
--Publishers Weekly
Copyright 2001
Cahners Business Information, Inc.
"Smolens not only
uses the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as a backdrop, he also treats it as
a character, silent, relentless, and cruel. Norman Haas walks away from
a prison work crew into a snowstorm, heading toward freedom but also
toward his past in search of answers and justice. Convicted of
assaulting his girlfriend, Noel, his sentence is long because of her
father's clout and the implication that he caused the disappearance of a
witness. But it's more of a sense of natural order than evil that causes
Norman to leave a woman for dead and to take advantage of the bad luck
of others. He runs off with a willing Noel and their daughter, trailed
by a wise local policeman and others concerned with keeping the past
hidden. The truth eventually is uncovered, but at what price? Those who
read suspense novels for their projection of justice and resolution will
find a winner here in this well-plotted and well-written tale fueled by
a sense of impending disaster."
--Booklist
Danise Hoover,
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
"John Smolens's
matter-of-fact narrative style pairs ideally with this gritty yarn about
a convict who, after fleeing a work detail in Michigan's Upper
Peninsula, sets off through a snowstorm to reclaim the life he'd enjoyed
before his duplicitous family sent him to prison. Here's an example of
Smolens's style from early on in Cold, when escapee Norman Haas is
involved in a trucking accident. Rather than save the trapped driver
from his rig's explosion, Norman steals a van from a stranger who has
stopped to help them both. "As he pushed in the clutch and shifted
into first gear," Smolens writes,
he realized there
was a familiar smell in the warm van. The ashtray was full of rolls of
Certs; he picked up one and began peeling back the paper. In the
rearview mirror he could see the burning truck. The flames now rose
high above the cab, and thick black smoke blew into the trees
alongside the road. Norman put a Certs in his mouth. The taste
reminded him of inside, where he'd sucked on Certs all day long.
Wintergreen.
Norman never achieves
much more dimension than that. He exists primarily as a catalyst,
forcing this book's other more intricately drawn characters to reveal
their own pain, mendacity, or longing. These include characters like his
ex- fiancée, Noel, who saw Norman's incarceration as just revenge for
his abuse; she went on to marry his malingering brother, but now intends
to run away with Norman to Canada. Or like Del Maki, the small-town
sheriff whose dogged pursuit of the escapee is entwined with his growing
appreciation for a widowed sculptor who'd tried to convince Norman to
turn himself in. As these players, along with Noel's hunter father and
his mysterious Asian business partner, converge at a remote cabin, they
incite a desperate, violent clash that exposes both the deception at the
root of Norman's conviction and an ugly conspiracy to profit from
wildlife destruction. Cold is fiction to chill the soul--too revealing
of human selfishness to be easily read, too well-written to be easily
put down."
Amazon.com's
Best of 2001
--J. Kingston
Pierce
"A fascinating and disturbing novel."
--Independent (Sunday)
"If you're ready for a
chilling, powerful, mesmerizing tale set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula,
grab a copy of Cold.... The intriguing, atmospheric novel focuses on a
variety of interpersonal relationships.....The entertaining, carefully
crafted tale is full of surprises, including the final chilling and
decisive conclusion.... Smolens' strong characters display a wide range
of human emotions; the heightened sense of atmostphere is so distinct
that you'll swear the temperature has gone down a few degrees since you
began reading the book. The deft plotting explores the frailties of the
human heart, problematic family relationsips and greed while presenting
a solid tale of strength, death and deception."
--Lansing State Journal
for WINTER BY
DEGREES
"What holds our attention is the rich atmosphere, the chill
desolation of a shore town in midwinter. John Smolens knows his
territory, social as well as geographical and proves it in his first
novel."
--Boston Sunday Globe
"A promising debut."
--Chicago Tribune
"...delivers gritty
dialogue and earthy atmosphere."
--Kirkus
"Richly textured and intriguing. A gritty tale of mystery and
violence...."
--Lansing State Journal
"Rich in
detail....Captures the sense of gloom that hangs over seaside
communities in the winter as if a tragedy is just around every
corner."
--Cape Cod Chronicle
Full Description of THE INVISIBLE WORLD
Samuel Xavier Adams remembers his father as a mysterious figure who
would occasionally emerge from the shadows of his "work" for
the United States government. Now, as Sam's mother leis dying in a
hospital, Sam's father appars once again after years of absence--perhaps
to say goodbye to the woman he loved, perhaps to hasten her demise--only
to disappear once again, this time with her cremated ashes.
Enraged, Sam sets out to find his father, descending into the shadowy
landscape of spooks as he tries to see clearly at last into one corner
of the invisible world.
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