Near Enemy: A Spademan Novel, by Adam Sternbergh
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Near Enemy: A Spademan Novel, by Adam Sternbergh
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The Taut, Unflinching New Thriller from Adam Sternbergh, Author of the Critically-Acclaimed Shovel Ready New York is toxic—decimated by a dirty bomb years ago. The limnosphere is a virtual safe haven—if you’re rich enough to buy in. Spademan is a hit man—box-cutter at the ready. His latest job is to snuff out Lesser, a lowlife lurking around other people’s fantasies. As Spademan is about to close the deal, Lesser comes back from the limn with a wild claim: terrorists are planning to attack New York. Again. This time from the inside out. The warning sends Spademan down a dark path full of unsavory characters and startling revelations. A shadowy political fixer tells him of a long-running power struggle that goes all the way to City Hall. A brilliant Egyptian radical brings Spademan to the mysterious far-reaches of the limn. And a beautiful nurse holds the secret to what, and who, is behind these attacks—and she seems to want to help Spademan stop them. But he works best alone. Or so he thinks. Spademan has always had his share of enemies, but now they’re coming at him from all sides and it’s impossible to know whom to trust. To stay sharp, his only option might be the one thing he swore he’d never do again.From the Hardcover edition.
Near Enemy: A Spademan Novel, by Adam Sternbergh- Amazon Sales Rank: #484990 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-06
- Released on: 2015-10-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .70" w x 5.20" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Review “Another adaptation-friendly sci-fi noir. Buy it now.” —Entertainment Weekly “Outstanding. . . . More fun than a book about the aftermath of a giant terrorist attack has any right to be.” —Esquire “An impressively thrilling narrative of terrorism, virtual reality and never quite knowing who, or what, the enemy is.” —Time Out New York “Fiction so fiery it will blister your subconscious. . . . Electric prose and shocking plot twists. . . . Sternbergh is quickly proving he requires permanent occupancy in the list of today’s best writers.” —The Free Lance-Star “This cool, futuristic crime noir will keep readers guessing. . . . Gritty. . . . Hard hitting.” —Parkersburg News and Sentinel"Violent, stylish, and even better than the first one." — Sydney Morning Herald"Compelling. . . . Intellectually beguiling. . . . The fight scenes in Near Enemy blend the operatic elegance of Bruce Lee in flight with comic-book-inspired mayhem. . . . Popular fiction that engages one’s heart, mind, and adrenaline the way the Spademan novels do is something to be savored.” —Booklist (starred review) “[A] solid sequel. . . . Sternbergh laces his second cyberpunk voyage with dark humor and eccentric characters.” —Publishers Weekly “Sternbergh’s spare characterizations and vivid descriptions of a great city fallen on hard times will strike a chord with fans of classic noir as well as readers who like dystopian sf or thrillers with a cyberpunk flavor.” —Library Journal “[The] action is played out in a postmodern and corrupt world of toxicity, both literal and metaphorical. . . . Other characters return from the first novel and provide a hint of nostalgia and sweetness missing from the dark and mean streets of New York.” —Kirkus Praise for Adam Sternbergh’s SHOVEL READY A Newsweek Best Books for 2014 Salon.com Top Critics’ Best of 2014 selection“Bogart-cool. . . . Addictive. . . . Death-metal brutal and darkly hilarious." —Entertainment Weekly“A searing debut. . . . Stark dialogue and high-volume grit, which Sternbergh enhances with sci-fi and dark humor. . . . [This] shady antihero may have a long life ahead.” —USA Today “[A] sardonic thriller that serves up lots of barbs. . . . Uniquely engaging. . . . A great read, and its world still manages to hold you in its dirty clutches until the violent, fascinating conclusion.” —io9.com “[Sternbergh] skillfully blends elements of noir, sci-fi, and speculative fiction, and keeps the action and the dialogue energetic.” —The New Yorker “A lean thriller. . . . Sternbergh knows his way around the style, matching the staccato rhythms of violence to those of language. . . . [If] you want to know if it’s as awesome as it sounds. It is.” —Chicago Tribune “The best of two dark, amoral, existentially empty worlds!” —Time “Energetic. . . . An enjoyable read.” —The Boston Globe “Boy, does this plot drive. It’s one of those books so gripping you read the whole thing in a single go. . . . Swift, [with] expertly timed twists and shocks, very hard to put down.” —The Guardian (UK) “Reads like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road set in New York. . . . [An] agreeably macho dystopia.” —Newsweek “Darkly funny.” —New York “Sternbergh’s prose is lean and sparse. . . . Shovel Ready is exciting. It starts fast and the author keeps his foot on the gas. The thrills feel earned.” —The Globe and Mail “The best kind of hard boiled noir.” —GQ “Memorably entertaining and garishly funny, Sternbergh’s debut novel is a winner.” —Cleveland Plain-Dealer “Thrilling. . . . Like Raymond Chandler on a sleepless cyberpunk jag. . . . Sternbergh adroitly delivers shadowy adventure tropes within a surprisingly breezy read.”—Time Out New York “Sternbergh comes busting out of the gate with this gritty noir.” —Flavorwire “Gripping. . . . A sharp, thought-provoking thriller. . . . The strongest impact of the book is the constant feeling it gives that the ghosts of 9/11 still haunt New York.” —National Post “Hardboiled as f*** with writing as fierce and sharp as a paper-cut.” —Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls “With prose chiseled to hardboiled perfection and a tale that throbs with the keen ache of noir, Adam Sternbergh’s Shovel Ready reads like William Gibson as directed with inky brilliance by Christopher Nolan. Debut novels as sleek, resonant and accomplished as this are a rare gift.” —Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me “Shovel Ready tosses you off a precipice and you don’t know where you're going to land. Dark and often funny, with sparse, sharp language. Think Charlie Huston’s dystopian New York meets Richard Stark’s anti-hero— this is good, bitter fun.” —Toby Barlow, author of Sharp Teeth and Babayaga “Shovel Ready is an elegant, lean and clever noir. It’s the best sci-fi thriller I’ve read since Snow Crash.” —Roger Hobbs, author of Ghostman “A terrific debut. It has the grimy neon feel of Warren Ellis’s Transmetropolitan combined with a touch of Philip K. Dick’s gonzo cyberpunk.” —Austin Grossman, author of You and Soon I Will Be Invincible “Compulsive! Savage future noir that crackles with deadpan wit.” —Nick Harkaway, author of The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author Adam Sternbergh is a contributing editor for New York magazine and Vulture. Formerly culture editor of The New York Times Magazine, his writing has appeared in GQ and the Times of London and on This American Life. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his family. Near Enemy is his second novel. www.adamsternbergh.com; @sternbergh
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. _Shovel Ready_ I was pleased but slightly wary to see the follow up By J. Hamby As a fan of Sternbergh's first book, _Shovel Ready_ I was pleased but slightly wary to see the follow up. Wary no more. All the charm of the first book: if you can use "charm" to describe a dark gritty post-apocalyptic urban noir. I was not expecting to enjoy the first but I certainly did. Sternbergh picks up with the main character a year later and keeps the same tight witty tone that balances well with a violent and grim imagined future.First, this is definitely a sequel. Sternbergh doesn't waste much time explaining certain small but telling elements he established in the first book. So remember. It is a sequel. You really need to have read the first book to enjoy this on the level it should, in my opinion. For me the setting works well, both familiar, disturbing in the light of how cities are fairing like Detroit and what could shatter the vibrant and urgent NYC so believable in today's world. It also makes for some fun establishing where and what is going on in terms of my own knowledge of the city. Sternbergh uses this "known" element to the best setting advantage and yet never gets too immersed in simply showing off his street knowledge of the place.As well he manages to flavor it with his own perceptions both of the city as it is and as it would be in such a situation. Deftly and cleverly doing so that, again, helps form the story in a wonderfully engaging way.His main character, Spademan is also a wonderful blend of sardonic, cynical and yet driven to do what he feels is right. A blend that is often hard to juggle. Sometimes the anti-hero bit is too heavy handed and then makes little sense when all the grit falls away to reveal nothing but another overly altruistic and "noble" hero.For fans of the first book, this is a must. For readers looking for something quick yet compelling I suggest you go pick up the first one. Then get the second.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Twisted, Darkly Funny, and Genre Crushing Novel That Refuses to be Labeled By Stephanie Ward 'Near Enemy' is the gripping and darkly hilarious second book in the Spademan series. The book picks up a year after the first one ended, but the reader is caught up to speed almost immediately, learning what has become of most of the other major characters from the last book. With everything seemingly back to normal, Spademan takes on what should be a routine job - to take out a guy named Lesser who has been a huge pain for everyone in the limnosphere. Although Lesser has been making enemies everywhere he goes, he comes back from his dream state and claims that there are terrorists who have found a way to get into the limnosphere and hijack the complex system from inside of it. Also - they're based somewhere in New York. Spademan doesn't know whether to believe Lesser or not, but this could turn out to be a huge terrorist attack - one that hasn't happened in a long time - and it would be from inside the limnosphere, where the people who can afford it retreat for an escape of the dim reality of their actual world. It seems that the more he investigates Lesser's claim, the more enemies he uncovers - some that he would never have guessed were so close, and just what they're willing to do.The author's first book in the series took me completely by surprise and it ended up being one of my favorite books of the year. Needless to say, I had pretty high expectations and hopes for this book - and the author didn't fail to deliver. The story has all of the strange and twisted elements as the first, our anti-hero main character is back, and the plot turned out to be complex with lots of twists. Spademan remains the gruff main character of the book - although he's still an anti-hero, those who have read the first book know a bit more about his character and can see beneath that layer of his personality to something more underneath. I loved Spademan just as much in this novel as I did in the last - he continues to be a favorite character of mine. The other characters in the book were well written, especially Lesser, who we get to know decently well. Again, he's not a saint or anything, but he's also much more than what he's known for.I loved the plot for the story. It was genius and original - terrorists going into the limnosphere and attacking from the inside? Awesome. As the story progresses and we learn more about these terrorists and their plan, the more we really get to dive into the perverse thinking and actions that have come about in this horrible new world that the author has created. It's written with such attention to detail and vivid imagery that I easily slipped back inside within the first couple of sentences. I could shut my eyes and see myself beside Spademan in this New York of his world - and experience everything just as he would. That kind of immersion is rare in a book, especially one that's so different from our own, and I consider that to be a huge indicator of the author's talent. The writing itself was phenomenal - just like the first. I was afraid that it wouldn't capture me in the same way as the previous book did, but I had nothing to fear - it was all written in the exact same gritty narrative with dark humor that had me snickering (a lot). The writing, in my opinion, reminds me of Frank Miller with it's short dialogue lines, twisted characters, and thrilling plot. The book was a quick read for me - however, I was already accustomed to the way the author writes and didn't have to figure it out. Some readers find the writing hard to decipher, at least at first, due to the lack of punctuation in places, the short lines, and no indications of what is dialogue and what isn't as well as who is saying what. Once you catch on though, the story really flies and you become completely engrossed in the story. I can honestly say that I love this book just as much as the first. There isn't any aspect of the book - from writing style to characters and setting to the plot itself and anything in between - that didn't blow my mind. It's hard to describe a book like this one - let alone try to write a coherent review of it. There's no way I could ever do it the justice it deserves, but I'm trying my best to convey how unique and unconventional the book is. Obviously, this book won't be for every reader. There will be those who don't like the writing style, or the overall plot and narrative. That's fine and to be expected. But for those readers who - like myself - enjoy this type of gritty, twisted, and darkly funny fiction and love to be totally engrossed and glued to each word - you need to read this book. Seriously. I can't recommend this novel, or the first novel in the series, highly enough. This is definitely going to be a favorite for this year and will end up on my all time favorites list. I'm keeping my eye on this author and I can't wait to see what he's going to come up with next.Disclosure: I received a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review through the Blogging for Books Program.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Not quite as good as the first,but still fun despite some issues. By B. Capossere Book came in the mail. White package. Black letters. Had my name on it, so yeah, I opened it. Not that I wasn’t careful. Near Enemy was the title. Name on the cover said Sternbergh. Rang a bell like I was sitting ringside at the big fight. Turns out I’d seen this guy before. Him and his character Spademan. Now they’re back. Can’t say I’m surprised.Not that there weren’t any surprises waiting. Like that rich guy getting offed in the limn. The offings not the surprise though. Guys getting’ killed all days all ways in the limn. Dead in the virtual world, just wake up in the real world. Happens all the time. ‘Cept this guy never woke up. Someone figured out how to murder folks in the limn so they stay murdered. People, huh? We’ll f—k up everything, every place. Just give us time.What’s Spademan’s role? Besides narrating like he’s getting charged by the word and his credit card’s all maxed out? Turns out the one witness — bed hopper named Lesser — was a job. Someone wanted him dead. It’s what Spademan does. Now he’s got another reason to find Lesser. And another employer. A top cop named Boonce. Seems murder in the limn makes the higher ups twitchy. ‘Specially if the murderer was wearing a bhurka, given Times Square’s still almost glowing from the last terror attack. ‘Specially since Boonce’s own boss, the top cop, is now running for mayor. Great. ‘Cause everything goes better when politics and religion get in the mix.And dames. Three of ‘em to be precise. Persephone from book one is back, baby daughter in tow, and don’t even get her started on what’s a girl gotta do to get some diaper wipes ‘round here. Not to mention all those folks trying to kill her. Plus we got a hard-drinking nurse named Nurse with a tourniquet-tight uniform and a mouth as sharp as the business end of a syringe. Who just happened to be taking care of the two guys who died in the limn. Yeah, I know what you’re thinkin’. Coincidence, right? Sure, it’s a no-brainer she knows more than she’s lettin’ on. Save Spademan ain’t thinking with his brain, ya know?It’s a mess, sure as Times Square’s leaking rads, and that ain’t even the most toxic thing in New York. It’s the people. Not all of ‘em, no, you got that right. But that’s the trick, ain’t it? Figuring out which are the bad ones, which are the good ones, and which are the ones who aren’t all bad — just bad some of the time. When the time calls for some bad. By the end, Spademan’s got it somewhat figured, though not all of it. And no, I’m not saying who’s who.Push comes to shove though, and it always does in this book, I have to say the figurin’ ain’t too tough. You got a view of the bad guys comin’ like you’re standing on top of the New York Times Building (and if ya read the book you’ll know why that’s funny).Predictability isn’t the only problem. I’m not gonna lie, much as I mostly like the guy’s mode of talking, Spademan’s stingy way with words kinda grates sometimes, the way he can make Hemingway looks like Faulkner. Plus the shifts from first person to omniscient can jar like a bad subway ride. And yeah, I used the word omniscient. Got it offa my word calendar. And again, if you read the book, you’ll know why that’s funny. Finally, get ready for a Spademan three. Cause Sternbergh leaves the reader dangling like a cigarette on the lip of a guy who just took two shots to the ticker. Ash-hole.Problems and all though, I kinda liked this Near Enemy story. No, it ain’t as good as the first one. But not as good as good is still lots better than bad the way I do the math. So yeah, I enjoyed it. Gonna get me the next one too. But I’m hopin’ it’s better. Hear that Sternbergh? Cause I know a guy that takes care of guys. Name’s Spademan. Best you remember that as you write the next one.(originally appeared at fantasyliterature.com)
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