The Red Arrow - William Brewer

''Insightful and often hilarious . . . a dazzling head-trip of a novel'' Nathan Hill, author of The NixWhen a once-promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous physicist''s memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: plagued by debt, he''s grown distant from his wife - asuccessful AI designer - and is haunted by an overwhelming sense of dread he describes as ''The Mist''. Then, things get worse. The physicist vanishes, leaving everything in limbo, including our narrator''s sanity.''Exquisite . . . Brewer''s evocation of the Mist is among the most accurate and insightful depictions of depression I''ve ever read'' Los Angeles Times