{"product_id":"cloudthief","title":"Cloudthief","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[A] rambunctious, thoroughly entertaining heist novel . . . Rich has an ear for dialogue, for the sound of smart people doing stupid shit.\" \u003cb\u003e--Dan Piepenbring, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A heady and diabolical mix of atmospheric road trip, mad caper, and risky love story spiked with shrewd insights . . . Rich has ingeniously crafted a seductive bull's-eye thriller of psychological exactitude and scathing societal critique.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Donna Seaman, \u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] meticulously plotted, philosophically compelling caper . . . Engrossing . . . Genuine intellectual heft and fast-paced, nimbly plotted action can coexist, after all. Top-notch.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Nathaniel Rich has constructed a category of fiction inescapably classifiable as noir reportage. \n\u003ci\u003eCloudthief\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read novel for anyone disturbed about the dubious direction of the 21st century.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Barry Gifford, author of \u003ci\u003eSailor \u0026amp; Lula\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Exception\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eCloudthief \u003c\/i\u003eis a literary tour de force that takes us deep inside the immensely powerful systems that have become the secret architecture of our lives. It is at once a gripping narrative of crime and consequence, and a devastating critique of our surveillance-obsessed world. This novel confirms Nathaniel Rich as one of our most essential and prophetic voices.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Amitav Ghosh, author of \u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eCloudthief \u003c\/i\u003eis a sneaky, clever 21st century heist novel that's a propulsive page turner, but also contains multitudes in the ways it interrogates our modern condition. Extremely satisfying and very funny.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Jeff VanderMeer, author of the \u003ci\u003eSouthern Reach\u003c\/i\u003e series\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathaniel Rich\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCloudthief\u003c\/i\u003e (2026) and three previous novels, all \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice selections: \u003ci\u003eKing Zeno\u003c\/i\u003e (2018); \u003ci\u003eOdds Against Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e (2013); and \u003ci\u003eThe Mayor's Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e (2008). His short fiction has won the Emily Clark Balch Prize and been a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction. He has also written two works of nonfiction: \u003ci\u003eSecond Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), which includes the story that serves as the basis for the film \u003ci\u003eDark Waters\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), a finalist for the PEN\/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is being adapted into a film directed by Tom McCarthy.\u003cbr\u003eRich is a contributing writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eand a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Harper's\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, he teaches at Tulane University and lives in New Orleans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 12 Best Books of Summer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Chicago Tribune \"Coolest Book of Summer\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"A heady and diabolical mix of atmospheric road trip, mad caper, and risky love story . . . Rich has ingeniously crafted a seductive bull's-eye thriller.\" --Donna Seaman, \u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy settle for nothing, when you can steal everything?\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eForget banks, casinos, museums--society's most valuable treasure sits in the giant, anonymous data centers that power modern life. There, in endless rows of hard drives, lies the sum of our civilization's knowledge, all of the world's personal and private truths, uploaded and saved. They wait unseen, unexploited, and, most critically, unguarded. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTim is a climate journalist disillusioned with chronicling the end of the world. Virginia is an evasive, paranoid, and technologically savvy con artist who has found an ingenious way to live off the grid in the heart of Manhattan. Joined by desire and desperation, they hatch a plan to steal secrets. But they have secrets of their own--secrets they can't tell each other, secrets that could destroy them both... \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith their last few dollars and some dimestore wigs they set out for the outskirts of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the unlikely site of the world's largest repository of knowledge--a data center the size of a small city--to attempt a brazen heist that, whether they fail or succeed, will change their lives forever. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the heist is only the beginning. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the award-winning author Nathaniel Rich, \n\u003ci\u003eCloudthief\u003c\/i\u003e is a heist novel for a new era, in which the most valuable things in life are virtual, privacy is a sick joke, and security is relative. After all is lost, what remains? \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/06\/2026 (EAN 9780374619794, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 pg. 102 (EAN 9780374619794, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780374619794, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eRich, Nathaniel\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathaniel Rich\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCloudthief\u003c\/i\u003e (2026) and three previous novels, all \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice selections: \u003ci\u003eKing Zeno\u003c\/i\u003e (2018); \u003ci\u003eOdds Against Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e (2013); and \u003ci\u003eThe Mayor's Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e (2008). His short fiction has won the Emily Clark Balch Prize and been a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction. He has also written two works of nonfiction: \u003ci\u003eSecond Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), which includes the story that serves as the basis for the film \u003ci\u003eDark Waters\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), a finalist for the PEN\/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is being adapted into a film directed by Tom McCarthy.\u003cbr\u003eRich is a contributing writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eand a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Harper's\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. 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