Join us for a reading Tuesday, October 1st at 6:00pm with novelist Jon Sealy for his book The Edge of America: A Novel. Jon will be join in conversation by Charles Dodd White, author of In the House of Wilderness.
About the Book
Bobby West is on the edge. As chief financial officer for a Miami holding company and a CIA front, he has overleveraged his business in the go-go 1980s financial culture. He turns to a deal-with-the-devil money laundering operation with a local gangster, Alexander French—a deal which quickly goes south when $3 million goes missing. Now Mr. French, a group of Cuban exiles, and an Israeli smuggler named Adriana Chekhov are all after Bobby West to pay up. With echoes of Iran-Contra and the Orwellian surveillance state, The Edge of America is a stunning thriller about greed, power, and the limits of the American dream.
About the Author
Jon Sealy is also the author of The Whiskey Baron. His stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including The South Carolina Review, The Normal School, and The Sun. A native of South Carolina, he lives in Richmond, Virginia.
