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Under Radar

Michael Tolkin

Michael Tolkin has garnered acclaim for his classic dark comedies The Player and Among the Dead. His most ambitious novel yet, Under Radar is a tale of guilt and redemption. While vacationing in Jamaica, Tom Levy witnesses a man goading his four-year-old daughter into an act so vulgar that Tom vows he must pay for it with his life. The next day, when they come to grips atop the Dunn's River Falls, Tom kills the man in cold blood. Condemned to prison, Tom faces a world unlike any he has ever known, among the most brutal and hardened men of Jamaica. Does an elusive story hold the key to their salvation, and Tom's own? And once Tom has told it, can he find a way to reenter the hearts of those he has left behind? Under Radar is insightful and haunting, gripplingly wrought with layers of power and meaning.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Grove Press
  • Publish Date: May 6th, 2003
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.25in - 5.46in - 0.58in - 0.55lb
  • EAN: 9780802139900
  • Categories: LiteraryCrimePsychological

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Praise for this book

"Startling...There is a tenacious intensity to Mr. Tolkin's peculiar vision....There is a fearlessness to Mr. Tolkin; s book that remains forceful...[A] fierce, eccentric book."
"Ambitious...Tolkin is taking on the shades of literature's foremost anatomists of ambiguously motivated murder....Tolkin harnesses the image-making faculty in a reader's brain and puts it to work in the service of his own uniquely moral storytelling."
"A slender tale that begins like one of Tolkin's trademark black comedies before veering off into a fable far riskier...An enigmatic yet haunting tribute to the power of storytelling."