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The more he learns, the more the hard truth is revealed: The Blinds is no sleepy hideaway, it's simmering with violence and deception, heartbreak and betrayal, and it's fit to burst. 'Adam Sternbergh tops my list of drop-everything-and-read novelists. 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. Cooper has his own secrets to protect, so when his new deputy starts digging, he needs to keep one step ahead of her - and the mysterious outsiders who threaten to tear the whole place down. Adam Sternbergh is a genre-bender of the highest caliber. Our summer reading series continues with an excerpt from Adam Sternberghs new novel, The Blinds.

All they do know is that they opted into the programme and that if they try to leave, they will end up dead.For eight years, Sheriff Calvin Cooper has kept an uneasy peace - but after a suicide and a murder in quick succession, the town's residents revolt. Since people periodically ask me about the status of a third Spademan novel. A new, standalone thriller: THE BLINDS, coming from Ecco Press in 2017.

Welcome to The Blinds, a dusty town in rural Texas populated by misfits who don't know if they've perpetrated a crime or just witnessed one. A new, standalone thriller: THE BLINDS, coming from Ecco Press in 2017. This may not be a prison, and it may not purgatory, but it's sure as hell not a paradise either.Imagine a place populated by criminals - people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who've been granted new identities and a second chance.

The blinds by adam sternbergh