The Feral Detective: A Novel

Jonathan Lethem?s first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn ?One of America?s greatest storytellers.? ?Washington Post Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She?s looking for her friend?s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly, he agrees to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble?caught in the middle of a violent standoff that only Heist, mysteriously, can end. Phoebe?s trip to the desert was always going to be strange, but it was never supposed to be dangerous. . . . Jonathan Lethem?s first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn, The Feral Detective is a singular achievement by one of our greatest writers.

Author: Jonathan Lethem

Publisher: Ecco

Publication Date: Aug 27, 2019

Number of Pages: 336 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0062859072

ISBN-13: 9780062859075