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Hugely readable . . . King Zeno would make a great Netflix series, a murky pre-Prohibition thriller poised somewhere between LA Confidential and True Detective. * New Statesman * The novel, like a city, somehow coheres, as Rich never loses control of the riotous raw material . . . Rich is a gifted portraitist of his three main characters . . . This is a novel with a high body count, but it has far too much energy ever to feel morbid. * The New York Times Book Review * A groaning board of tasty literary treats . . . King Zeno offers a gritty, panoramic portrait of the Big Easy . . . Full of sharply rendered characters, gallows humor and finely observed descriptions . . . The fact that Rich comes so close to executing this ambitious literary banquet is in itself a remarkable achievement. * Washington Post * A great detective novel, a fitting tribute to the Crescent City. * The Paris Review (Staff Pick) * Action packed . . . Rich has a feel for New Orleans life. * San Francisco Chronicle *

Action packed . . . Rich has a feel for New Orleans life. * San Francisco Chronicle * A great detective novel, a fitting tribute to the Crescent City. * The Paris Review (Staff Pick) * A groaning board of tasty literary treats . . . King Zeno offers a gritty, panoramic portrait of the Big Easy . . . Full of sharply rendered characters, gallows humor and finely observed descriptions . . . The fact that Rich comes so close to executing this ambitious literary banquet is in itself a remarkable achievement. * Washington Post * The novel, like a city, somehow coheres, as Rich never loses control of the riotous raw material . . . Rich is a gifted portraitist of his three main characters . . . This is a novel with a high body count, but it has far too much energy ever to feel morbid. * The New York Times Book Review * Hugely readable . . . King Zeno would make a great Netflix series, a murky pre-Prohibition thriller poised somewhere between LA Confidential and True Detective. * New Statesman * An elegantly structured, brilliantly told novel, by turns terrifying, touching, and wildly funny, and always generous and magical . . . Kudos to Nathaniel Rich, who has created a brave book, a novel brimming with brio. -- Stephen King

Action packed . . . Rich has a feel for New Orleans life. * San Francisco Chronicle * A great detective novel, a fitting tribute to the Crescent City. * The Paris Review (Staff Pick) * A groaning board of tasty literary treats . . . King Zeno offers a gritty, panoramic portrait of the Big Easy . . . Full of sharply rendered characters, gallows humor and finely observed descriptions . . . The fact that Rich comes so close to executing this ambitious literary banquet is in itself a remarkable achievement. * Washington Post * The novel, like a city, somehow coheres, as Rich never loses control of the riotous raw material . . . Rich is a gifted portraitist of his three main characters . . . This is a novel with a high body count, but it has far too much energy ever to feel morbid. * The New York Times Book Review * An elegantly structured, brilliantly told novel, by turns terrifying, touching, and wildly funny, and always generous and magical . . . Kudos to Nathaniel Rich, who has created a brave book, a novel brimming with brio. -- Stephen King

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Nathaniel Rich is the author of the novels Odds Against Tomorrow and The Mayor's Tongue. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and VICE, among other publications. He is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Atlantic. Rich lives with his wife and son in New Orleans.

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