Rivers of Gold
A Novel
By Adam Dunn
October 2010
$25.00
288 pp
6.125 x 9.25 in
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781608193073
ISBN-10: 1608193071
ISBN-10: 1608193071
Rivers of Gold
A Novel
By Adam Dunn
Bright Lights, Big City meets The Wire in a compulsive, sexy, gritty urban thriller set in the day-after-tomorrow's financially devastated New York, by a phenomenally talented first-time novelist.
New York City has never been an easy place to make it, but in the year 2013, it's a little tougher than usual. Race riots. Massive unemployment. Rampant crime. Vacant buildings now housing a thriving black market. A worthless currency and a broken government. Welcome to the Second Great Depression. Some have adapted to life in tomorrow's Big Apple. Like Renny, a part-time fashion photographer and full-time drug dealer who oversees a network of taxicabs running contraband through the underground party circuit. He works for Reza, an enterprising immigrant who has turned the city's nightlife down a deadly road.
Others in the city are just trying to hang on. Like Detective Sixto Santiago, part of an experimental new NYPD unit known as the Citywide Anticrime Bureau (CAB), squads of undercover cops in taxicabs who are meant to hold down the chaos just enough to keep tourists coming. Santiago's new assignment will send him after the man both Renny and Reza must ultimately answer to, a criminal visionary known only as the Slav. But Santiago's most dangerous foe just might be his new partner. From the grime of the city's taxi garages to the sterilized peaks where high finance and organized crime converge, Rivers of Gold is a kaleidoscopic vision of the near future gone hideously wrong.
Advance Praise for Rivers of Gold:
"Rivers of Gold is a mile-a-minute, kick-ass blast of tech-noir. A rush from start to finish."—Dennis Lehane
"Rivers of Gold is brilliant! Dunn is one of those true rarities among crime novelists: a natural storyteller with a breathtaking style and an unstoppable imagination. It's The Wire, it's James Ellroy, with a bit of Blade Runner thrown in."—Jeffery Deaver, author of The Bone Collector and The Burning Wire
“Dunn has brilliantly tapped into our deepest fear of what tomorrow holds and crafted a unique brand of future noire. His nightmare New York of 2013 is a pitiless projection of all the angst and trembling that arrives with the morning news. This is catharsis. Read it and be free."—John Burdett author of Bangkok 8 and The Godfather of Kathmandu
Reviews for Rivers of Gold:
Adam Dunn’s Rivers Of Gold makes January Magazine’s Best of 2010 list!
"Often brilliant.The novel's early sections suggest an updating of the urban decadence we've seen before in books like Jay McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City" and Bret Easton Ellis's "Less Than Zero." Dunn is a talented writer, and "Rivers of Gold" will be talked about, deservedly."—Washington Post. Read review.
“Powerfully written and creative.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Read review.
Read review in the Miami Herald . The review was first run in the Washington Post.
“Well done…the author paints an appropriately bleak picture of NYC three years down the road, and his two lead characters, the crook and the cop, are nicely drawn. Fans of gritty noir fiction, whether it be mystery or SF, should find this one very much to their liking.”—Booklist