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    A Conspiracy of Tall Men

    Written by Noah Hawley

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff

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    About this audiobook

    Linus Owen is a young professor of conspiracy theory at a small college just outside San Francisco. His marriage is foundering and his wife, Claudia, has gone to Chicago to visit her mother. But if Claudia is in Chicago, how is it that two FBI agents show up at Linus' office and inform him that Claudia has been killed in a plane crash on her way from New York to Brazil? And why did a man named Jeffrey Holden, the vice president of a major pharmaceutical company, buy her ticket and die beside her?

    Enlisting the aid of two fellow conspiracy theorists, Linus heads across the country in search of answers. But as their journey progresses, it becomes frighteningly clear they've left the realm of the academic and are tangled up in a dangerous, multilayered cover-up. Finally, deep in the heart of the American desert, stunned by an ominous revelation, Linus sees he has a new mission: to try to stay alive.

    Part Don DeLillo, part Kurt Vonnegut, with writing that is electric, whip-smart and suspenseful at each turn, Noah Hawley draws us into a deliciously labyrinthine world of paranoia and plots.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateJun 5, 2018
    ISBN9781549113635
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    A Conspiracy of Tall Men
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    Noah Hawley

    Noah Hawley is a screenwriter, filmmaker and photographer. He has directed two short films for the Fox Searchlab new director development program. His first novel, A Conspiracy of Tall Men, was optioned by Paramount. Noah Hawley adapted the screenplay. He has published stories in The Paris Review. He lives in San Francisco.

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    • 4/5
      As the author explains in a new 2018 introduction to his 1998 novel, conspiracy theories have now become almost the exclusive territory of the right wing, but here, alternate history (!) professor Linus Owens gets caught up in his own miserable reality. His wife dies in an Everglades plane crash (there was the real ValuJet one in 1996) and he sets out, with two comrades, to find out the cause. Linus encounters all manner of government and corporate plotters, all of whom seem to have similar names. But trying to follow the logic, if there is any, takes way too much effort without a scorecard. There's some redemption in the humor and the witty dialogue, and the pathos is touching, but all in all, it's a mess.Quotes: "As with all people he has altered his perceptions to retain both his dogma and his lifestyle.""The rich shouldn't be allowed religion. It belittles the faith of the poor.""You are volunteering to abandon mystery and slip into a comfortable understanding - that's marriage."