{"product_id":"the-snares-hardcover","title":"The Snares - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRav Grewal-K?k\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Punjabi American lawyer at a mysterious federal intelligence agency fights to keep his career, marriage, and morality intact in this gripping post-9\/11 drama from a thrilling new voice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Here is, at long last, our immigrant John le Carr?. . . . Rav Grewal-K?k is a fearless and visionary writer.\"--Xuan Juliana Wang, author of \u003ci\u003eHome Remedies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Are you happy where you are? Toiling in the trenches of the Justice Department?\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the waning months of George W. Bush's presidency, Neel Chima, a former naval officer and federal prosecutor, is recruited to join a new federal intelligence agency--one with greater than usual powers and fewer than usual restrictions. Neel soon finds himself intimately involved in the surveillance of domestic terrorism suspects and the selection of foreigners for drone assassination--men who often look just like his Sikh family members. As both his ambitions and his moral qualms mount, he is drawn farther and farther away from his wife and two young daughters. When he makes a critical mistake at work, he is left vulnerable to shadowy figures in the intelligence world who seek to use him in their own, still more radical counterterrorism missions. If he agrees, the world of power will open up even wider to him. If he doesn't . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs Neel an insider or an outsider? The hunter or the hunted? An idealist or a mercenary? What truths, and whose lives, is he willing to sacrifice? The novel plunges readers into the human turmoil behind the faceless operations--the torture, secret assassinations, and drone strikes--of the American security state, creating an eye-opening meditation on morality, violence, and the price of a human soul.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRav Grewal-K?k\u003c\/b\u003e's stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, Ploughshares, New England Review, Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. He has won an NEA fellowship in prose and is a fiction editor at \u003ci\u003eFence\u003c\/i\u003e. He grew up in Hong Kong and on Vancouver Island and now lives in Los Angeles. \u003ci\u003eThe Snares \u003c\/i\u003eis his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.4 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378901086310,"sku":"9780593446034","price":37.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/O3ZKWwOkhb9780593446034.webp?v=1768912643","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-snares-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}