Windward Passage

FE/FP with publisher's full number line. As new hardcover in similar dust jacket, now wrapped in Brodart. Nisbet's writing used the conventions of crime fiction and noir to support a dark, cerebral, and harrowing narrative, laced with humor and carried off in unexpected directions by exuberant wordplay. He incorporated themes as wide-ranging as sailing, particle physics, mathematics, ancient Rome, modern jazz, and urban subculture. In the parallel near-future, a ship named for a free-floating Hydrozoan sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine and a nearly-completed novel. 448 pages.