**In this mind-bending crime novel by Shamus Awardβwinner John Straley, one man attempts to save his town from nuclear annihilation.** Itβs been seven years since Gloomy Knob landed in the Ted Stevens High-Security Federal Penitentiary and five years since the end of the war, the one North Korea
What Is Time to a Pig?
β Scribed by John Straley
- Book ID
- 100256058
- Publisher
- Soho Press;Soho Crime
- Year
- 2019;2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1641290854
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
**From the wild and wonderful mind of Shamus Award -winning author John Straley comes a poetic masterpiece that explores the ugly truths of the prison industrial complex, the crumbling state of humanity, the role memory plays in the formation of the self, and much more.
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It's been seven years since Gloomy Knob landed in the Ted Stevens High-Security Federal Penitentiary and five years since the end of the war, the one North Korea started when they sent a missile to Cold Storage, Alaska. Serving a life sentence for the murder of his sister, Gloomy spends histime trying to forget about the past.
Then one day, Gloomy is snatched from his off-site work station. Instead of celebrating his newfound freedom, Gloomy comes unmoored--he feels he belongs in prison. But his kidnappers believe Gloomy knows where a second nuclear warhead is hidden and demand to know where it is. The clock is ticking, and Gloomy knows he needs to find the missing warhead fast, or his...
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