What’s more, The Blinds questions the connection of character and fate. He fashions intriguing characters out of amnesiacs who are afraid to remember past misdeeds. Agent: David McCormick, McCormick Literary. Jby Adam Sternbergh Since people periodically ask me about the status of a third Spademan novel, I thought I would provide this update: I'm very happy to announce I'll be publishing THE BLINDS with Ecco press. In The Blinds ’ hard-boiled narrative, Sternbergh delivers cutting humor and devastating violence that shows little regard for readers of delicate sensitivities. It’s a clever premise, but the many contrivances that support the plot don’t hold up as the novel moves briskly toward its conclusion, whose twists are telegraphed a little too clearly to preserve the element of surprise. As the wider world intrudes, Cooper must handle new arrivals, work with the shadowy institute that has supplied the research and technology for memory editing, and defend his town against cynical outside forces that could burst the bubble that defines Cooper’s world. It’s witty, electrifying, vivid, and thoroughly original. Part thriller, part Western, part pulpy whodunit, The Blinds is a propulsive and meaningful meditation on redemption and loss.

The fragile calm shatters when first one, then two residents are shot dead in a place where guns don’t officially exist. Adam Sternbergh is a genre-bender of the highest caliber. What allows the two groups to coexist is that all their memories have been selectively edited to erase their recollections of their respective crime experiences. In Caesura, an isolated Texas town that’s part penal colony, part rehabilitation experiment, Sheriff Calvin Cooper keeps the peace in a community that mixes the most savage of criminals with the victims of horrible crimes. Guilt, memory, and redemption swirl through this inventive science-fiction-based thriller from Edgar-finalist Sternbergh ( Shovel Ready).

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