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Windward passage

Jim Nisbet

2010448 pagesabout 7–10 hours
2010
first published
  • 2010Overlook Press · 448 pages · ENGISBN 9781590201947
  • 2011Overlook TP · 448 pagesISBN 9781590205808
  • 2013Blackstone AudiobooksISBN 9781482928792
  • 2013Blackstone PublishingISBN 9781482928778

In the parallel near-future, a ship named for a jellyfish sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and a nearly-completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor's sister, and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to unravel a mystery that rapidly widens from death at sea to international conspiracy.

How it feels

AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

When and where

ThemesJustice
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