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FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE YELLOW BIRDS
'A kickass mystery from a superb storyteller' David Baldacci, author of The 6:20 Man
'A spellbinding and totally original thriller' Philipp Meyer, author of The Son
An early morning on a beach in Virginia. As he is taking his daily swim, Arman Bajalan - formerly an interpreter in Iraq - discovers a dead body. After surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US. Now, sure that the murder is connected to his past, he knows he's still not safe.
Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her fresh-off-the-beat partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the man's pocket. It leads them to Sally Ewell, a local journalist as grief-stricken as Arman by the Iraq war, who is investigating a nefarious corporation: one on the cusp of landing a multi-billion-dollar government defence contract.
As victims mount around Arman, taking the team down wrong turns and towards startling evidence, they find themselves in a race, committed to unravelling the truth and keeping Arman alive - even if it costs them everything.
A Line in the Sand is a sinuous, powerful and white-knuckle thriller, from the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds, shot through with treachery, trauma and the long tentacles of war.
'A tense, twisting, and thoughtful story of the intersection between grief and greed' Michael Koryta, author of Never Far Away
Review
Sure to rank among the year's best thrillers, A Line in the Sand is a tense, twisting, and thoughtful story of the intersection between grief and greed - and the human lives crushed in the middle. Kevin Powers writes with uncommon grace, delivering the rare novel that is both propulsive and contemplative, calling to mind writers as varied as Tim O'Brien and Michael Connelly. -- Michael Koryta
Kevin Powers walks-the-walk and talks-the-talk in this compelling, frighteningly knowledgeable thriller -- Craig Johnson, author of the Longmire Series
Powers has done it again. A Line in the Sand has it all . . . Enjoy the latest from a superb storyteller -- David Baldacci, author of The 6:20 Man
A thriller, with a crime so big and characters so flawed, you'll be holding your breath the whole time . . . The book's got all the stuff you've always loved about Powers' writing: a deep and abiding understanding of what soldiers sacrifice, a thoughtful examination of the place he grew up, and prose so beautiful it'll make you weep -- Rachel Beanland, author of Florence Adler Swims Forever
Praise for The Yellow Birds
Extraordinary . . . beautifully accomplished. The mark of an artist of the first order . . . a must-read book. -- John Burnside - Guardian
A masterpiece . . . a classic. -- Books of the Year - The Times
A stunning achievement - visceral [and] poignant. - Sunday Times
Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify -- Hilary Mantel - Guardian
A wonderful, powerful novel that moves and terrifies. - Independent on Sunday
An extraordinary novel . . . remarkable . . . stands with Tim O'Brien's enduring Vietnam book, The Things They Carried, as a classic of contemporary war fiction . . . brilliantly observed and deeply affecting. - New York Times
An important novel by a formidable talent - Daily Mail
Intense, painful, excellent. - Spectator
Powers has written a compassionate, poetic evocation of war and its legacy which has already been hailed as a classic of its genre -- Books of the Year - Sunday Express
Enormously powerful . . . Powers' writing is also attentive to nature and landscape, and he manages to entertain contradictory notions of beauty and horror. Wasn't that Fitzgerald's definition of genius? - Financial TImes
In the great tradition of Hemingway and Tim O'Brien . . . exquisitely written -- Edna O'Brien - Guardian
Harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary - Ann Patchett
Written with an intensity which is deeply compelling - Colm Tóibín
This is a novel I've been waiting for. The Yellow Birds is born from experience and rendered with compassion and intelligence. All of us owe Kevin Powers our heartfelt gratitude. - Alice Sebold
One of those books that knocks your perceptions into new alignment permanently. - Barbara Kingsolver
The Yellow Birds is the All Quiet on the Western Front of America's Arab Wars - Tom Wolfe
Book Description
A sinuous, powerful and white-knuckle thriller, from the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds, shot through with treachery, trauma and the long tentacles of war.
About the Author
Kevin Powers' first novel, The Yellow Birds, won the Guardian First Book Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist. His poetry collection, Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. His second novel, A Shout in the Ruins, was published in 2018.
Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq.
A Line In The Sand
SIZE GUIDE
- ISBN: 9781399711494
- Author: Kevin Powers
- Publisher: Sceptre
- Pages: 368
- Format: Paperback
Book Description
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE YELLOW BIRDS
'A kickass mystery from a superb storyteller' David Baldacci, author of The 6:20 Man
'A spellbinding and totally original thriller' Philipp Meyer, author of The Son
An early morning on a beach in Virginia. As he is taking his daily swim, Arman Bajalan - formerly an interpreter in Iraq - discovers a dead body. After surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US. Now, sure that the murder is connected to his past, he knows he's still not safe.
Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her fresh-off-the-beat partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the man's pocket. It leads them to Sally Ewell, a local journalist as grief-stricken as Arman by the Iraq war, who is investigating a nefarious corporation: one on the cusp of landing a multi-billion-dollar government defence contract.
As victims mount around Arman, taking the team down wrong turns and towards startling evidence, they find themselves in a race, committed to unravelling the truth and keeping Arman alive - even if it costs them everything.
A Line in the Sand is a sinuous, powerful and white-knuckle thriller, from the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds, shot through with treachery, trauma and the long tentacles of war.
'A tense, twisting, and thoughtful story of the intersection between grief and greed' Michael Koryta, author of Never Far Away
Review
Sure to rank among the year's best thrillers, A Line in the Sand is a tense, twisting, and thoughtful story of the intersection between grief and greed - and the human lives crushed in the middle. Kevin Powers writes with uncommon grace, delivering the rare novel that is both propulsive and contemplative, calling to mind writers as varied as Tim O'Brien and Michael Connelly. -- Michael Koryta
Kevin Powers walks-the-walk and talks-the-talk in this compelling, frighteningly knowledgeable thriller -- Craig Johnson, author of the Longmire Series
Powers has done it again. A Line in the Sand has it all . . . Enjoy the latest from a superb storyteller -- David Baldacci, author of The 6:20 Man
A thriller, with a crime so big and characters so flawed, you'll be holding your breath the whole time . . . The book's got all the stuff you've always loved about Powers' writing: a deep and abiding understanding of what soldiers sacrifice, a thoughtful examination of the place he grew up, and prose so beautiful it'll make you weep -- Rachel Beanland, author of Florence Adler Swims Forever
Praise for The Yellow Birds
Extraordinary . . . beautifully accomplished. The mark of an artist of the first order . . . a must-read book. -- John Burnside - Guardian
A masterpiece . . . a classic. -- Books of the Year - The Times
A stunning achievement - visceral [and] poignant. - Sunday Times
Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify -- Hilary Mantel - Guardian
A wonderful, powerful novel that moves and terrifies. - Independent on Sunday
An extraordinary novel . . . remarkable . . . stands with Tim O'Brien's enduring Vietnam book, The Things They Carried, as a classic of contemporary war fiction . . . brilliantly observed and deeply affecting. - New York Times
An important novel by a formidable talent - Daily Mail
Intense, painful, excellent. - Spectator
Powers has written a compassionate, poetic evocation of war and its legacy which has already been hailed as a classic of its genre -- Books of the Year - Sunday Express
Enormously powerful . . . Powers' writing is also attentive to nature and landscape, and he manages to entertain contradictory notions of beauty and horror. Wasn't that Fitzgerald's definition of genius? - Financial TImes
In the great tradition of Hemingway and Tim O'Brien . . . exquisitely written -- Edna O'Brien - Guardian
Harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary - Ann Patchett
Written with an intensity which is deeply compelling - Colm Tóibín
This is a novel I've been waiting for. The Yellow Birds is born from experience and rendered with compassion and intelligence. All of us owe Kevin Powers our heartfelt gratitude. - Alice Sebold
One of those books that knocks your perceptions into new alignment permanently. - Barbara Kingsolver
The Yellow Birds is the All Quiet on the Western Front of America's Arab Wars - Tom Wolfe
Book Description
A sinuous, powerful and white-knuckle thriller, from the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds, shot through with treachery, trauma and the long tentacles of war.
About the Author
Kevin Powers' first novel, The Yellow Birds, won the Guardian First Book Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist. His poetry collection, Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. His second novel, A Shout in the Ruins, was published in 2018.
Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq.
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