suspend us in a kind of hallucinatory present where every detail is sharply defined yet queasily unreliable. Certainties are blurred, truth becomes malleable and in The Glass Hotel the con man thrives. Mandel’s fiction. her narratives snake their way across treacherous, shifting terrain. 'The question of what is real-be it love, money, place or memory-has always been at the heart of Ms. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility! Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night.

When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. Freshly mysterious.” - The Washington Post From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events -the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.#40 in Bestselling Mystery & Thriller Audiobooks Summary

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