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Absolution : a Southern Reach novel / Jeff VanderMeer.

ISBN: 9780374616595
ISBN: 0374616590
Physical Description: xi, 441 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Copyright: &copy;2024

Summary:

"Absolution opens decades before Area X forms, with a science expedition whose mysterious end suggests terrible consequences for the future--and marks the Forgotten Coast as a high-priority area of interest for Central, the shadowy government agency responsible for monitoring extraordinary threats. Many years later, the Forgotten Coast files wind up in the hands of a washed-up Central operative known as Old Jim. Soon, Old Jim is back out in the field, grappling with personal demons and now partnered with an unproven young agent, the two of them tasked with solving what may be an unsolvable mystery. Old Jim's investigation culminates in the first Central expedition into what has now been labeled Area X. A border has come down, and a full team has been assembled to find Area X's "off switch" somewhere in the volatile, dangerous terrain that has mysteriously defied all attempts to be explored, mapped, or controlled. A landscape that, one way or another, seems to consume all who enter it." --Provided by publisher.