Surrender, New York: A Novel - Hardcover

Carr, Caleb

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679455698 ISBN 13: 9780679455691

Publisher: Random House, 2016

Synopsis

Caleb Carr, bestselling author of The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness, has created a contemporary psychological thriller haunted by the shadowy hands of established power.
In rural, impoverished Burgoyne County, New York, a pattern of strange deaths begins to emerge: adolescent boys and girls are found murdered, their corpses left hanging in gruesome, ritualistic fashion. Senior law enforcement officials are quick to blame a serial killer, yet their efforts to apprehend this criminal are peculiarly ineffective.
Meanwhile, in the county's small town of Surrender, Trajan Jones, a psychological profiler (and the world's leading expert on the life and work of one Dr. Laszlo Kreizler), and Michael Li, a trace evidence expert, once famed advisors to the New York City Police Department, teach online courses in profiling and forensic science from Jones's family farm. Alone and armed mainly with their wits, protected only by farmhands and Jones' unusual "pet," the outcast pair are secretly called in to consult on the case.
Jones and Li immediately discern that the various victims were all "throwaway children," a new state classification given to young people who are neither orphans, runaways nor homeless, but victims of a terrible phenomenon sweeping America's poor: abandoned by their families, the throwaways are left to fend for themselves. One of these throwaways, Lucas Kurtz, along with his blind older sister, cross paths with Jones and Li, offering information that could blow the case wide open.
Racing against the case's mounting stakes, Jones and Li find that they are battling not only to unravel the mystery of how the throwaways died, but also to defend themselves and the Kurtz siblings from the threats of shadowy but powerful agents who want to stop them from uncovering the truth. It is a truth that, Jones believes, leads away from their world and back to the increasingly wealthy city where both he and his long-dead intellectual guide, Dr Kreizler, did their greatest work. But will they be able to trace the case to New York before they fall victim to the murderous forces that stalk them?
Moving at the same rapid pace as his earlier books, yet with the same depth of historical and scientific research, Carr creates another rollercoaster ride of ideas and emotions. Like The Alienist, Surrender, New York brings to life the grim underbelly of a prosperous nation - and those most vulnerable to its failings.
 

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From the Author

Caleb Carr notes that, "This book is essentially a modern application of the principles and theories of Dr. Laszlo Kreizler to criminal behavior, especially that directed at children."

About the Author

Caleb Carr is a novelist and military historian, andthe award-winning author of the New York Times and worldwide bestsellersThe Alienist and The Angel of Darkness, aswell as numerous other works of fiction and non-fiction, including the now-standard Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians. He was worked at the Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Affairs Quarterly, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, and Bard College, teaching various courses in military history. He has been a frequent contributor in the fields of war and crime to publications ranging from The New York Times to the Washington Post and Lost Angeles Times, and from Time Magazine to Vanity Fair. He was a frequent commentator on all television networks during the invasion of Iraq. A native of New York City, he spent much of his life in upstate New York, where he now lives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0679455698
• ISBN 13: 9780679455691
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608