Our friend Stephen Miller reads from his new thriller The Messenger (Random House of Canada) this Friday, 3 August 2012, at Main Street. Free admission; cash bar; limited seating. Doors 6:30, reading 7pm sharp.
Via Random House:
"Stephen Miller’s potent immediate novel of a young terrorist loose on the streets of the United States is perfect for the readers of intelligent character-driven novels such as John Updike’s Terrorist and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland. In this harrowing exploration of a young woman’s mission, Daria has been sent to America and she holds the power of life and death in her hands. This is the story of two outsiders existing in the margins of their respective worlds. They are two enemies of the state: Daria–born in a refugee camp, raised in poverty, and Sam Watterman–a scientist who told his government the things they didn’t want to hear and was discredited, an ex-pat in his own country. Daria’s odyssey will bring her to the United States, on a journey of vengeance. Watterman’s path will take him from enforced obscurity into the war rooms of American intelligence. In the next 16 days, Daria will learn to question everything she has been taught. Watterman will learn that even evil has a human face. This is the story of two people from opposite sides of the globe, who did not know the other existed but who will affect each other in profound–even devastating–ways."
