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From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy Lynn�s Long Halftime Walk comes a brilliant and propulsive new novel about greed, power, and American complicity set in Haiti MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: Associated Press, ABC News, Yahoo! Finance, Seattle Times, Lit Hub and more!!! Haiti, 1991. When a violent coup d��tat leads to the fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, American expat Matt Amaker is forced to abandon his idyllic, beachfront scuba business. With the rise of a brutal military dictatorship and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country�s most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in the chaos�and others are just looking to make it through another day. Desperate for money�and survival�Matt teams up with his best friend and business partner Alix Variel, the adventurous only son of a socially prominent Haitian family. They set their sights on legendary shipwrecks that have been rumored to contain priceless treasures off a remote section of Haiti�s southern coast. Their ambition and exploration of these disastrous wrecks come with a cascade of ill-fated incidents�one that involves Misha, Alix�s erudite sister, who stumbles onto an arms-trafficking ring masquerading as a U.S. government humanitarian aid office, and rookie CIA case officer Audrey O�Donnell, who finds herself doing clandestine work on an assignment that proves to be more difficult and dubious than she could have possibly imagined. Devil Makes Three�s depiction of blood politics, the machinations of power, and a country in the midst of upheaval is urgently and insistently resonant. This new novel is sure to cement Ben Fountain�s reputation as one of the twenty-first century�s boldest and most perceptive writers. (less)

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy Lynn�s Long Halftime Walk comes a brilliant and propulsive new novel about greed, power, and American complicity set in Haiti MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: Associated Press, ABC News, (…more)