Devil Makes Three by Ben Fountain

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy Lynna's Long
Halftime Walk comes a brilliant and propulsive new novel about greed,
power, and American complicity set in Haiti
Haiti, 1991. When a violent coup da'A©tat leads to the fall of President JeanBertrand Aristide, American expat Matt Amaker is forced to abandon his idyllic
beachfront scuba business. With the rise of a brutal military dictatorship and
an international embargo threatening to destroy even the countrya's most
powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in the chaosa€and
others are just looking to make it through another day.
Desperate for moneya€and survivala€Matt teams up with his best friend and
business partner Alix Variel, the adventurous only son of a socially prominent
Haitian family. They set their sights on legendary shipwrecks that have been
rumored to contain priceless treasures in a remote section of Haitia's southern
coast. Their ambition and exploration of these disastrous wrecks come with a
cascade of ill-fated incidentsa€one that involves Misha, Alixa's erudite sister,
who stumbles onto an arms-trafficking ring masquerading as a U.S.
government humanitarian aid office, and rookie CIA case officer Audrey
Oa'Donnell, who finds herself doing clandestine work on an assignment that
proves to be more difficult and dubious than she could have possibly
imagined.
Devil Makes Three a's depiction of blood politics, the machinations of power,
and a country in the midst of upheaval is urgently and insistently resonant.
This new novel is sure to cement Ben Fountaina's reputation as one of the
twenty-first centurya's boldest and most perceptive writers.

Ben Fountaina's work has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for
Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction,
and a Whiting Writers Award, and has been a finalist for the National Book
Award and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives in Dallas.

Flatiron Books
On Sale: Sep 26/23
6.12 x 9.25 • 544 pages
9781250776518 • $39.99 • CL - With dust jacket
Fiction / Political