The Red Arrow: A novel

By: William Brewer

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Synopsis: When 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—a successful 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. Desperate for relief, the young writer undergoes an experimental, psychedelic treatment and finds his world completely transformed: Joy suffuses every moment. For the first time, he understands himself in a larger, universal context, and feels his life shift, refract, and crack open to reveal his past and future alike. Moving swiftly from a chemical spill in West Virginia to Silicon Valley, from a Brooklyn art studio to a high-speed train racing across the Italian countryside, The Red Arrow wades into the shadowy depths of the human psyche only to emerge, as if speeding through a mile-long tunnel, into a world that is so bright and wondrous, it almost feels completely new.