Made in America

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Billy Castle </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>serves drinks to men who will never know his name-a Queens kid keeping his head down supporting an alcoholic mother and doing everything he can to avoid the legacy of his father a small-time gangster whose shadow still clings to him. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dean Willis</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> chases ghosts in a city that's already forgotten them. And </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Archer Stone</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-magnetic ruthless and more myth than man-has built an empire on the principle that America's debts are never paid only inherited.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Billy witnesses a murder in the loading dock of the exclusive Palace nightclub he's pulled into a world his family has orbited for generations: a New York that stretches from the glittering towers of Manhattan to the raw edges of Queens and the Bronx where power moves through bloodlines where violence is a language passed from father to son and where the machinery of the American dream runs on bodies like his. Across the city federal agent Dean Willis-hollowed by loss drowning in drink and chasing a man who feels less like a criminal than a ghost of the nation itself-finds himself drawn into the same orbit.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As their paths converge </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Made in America</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> becomes a reckoning with the stories a nation tells itself. A novel about inheritance-of trauma of class of the myths we build to survive-and what happens when those myths collapse. Sprawling yet intimate brutal yet tender </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>it's a literary crime epic steeped in Greek tragedy</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> told through an ensemble of lives bound by ambition and ruin exposing how power endures through institutions bloodlines and myth-and the cost borne by those beneath it. Jack Chase has written an American tragedy for the present moment: </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>brutal hypnotic and impossible to forget</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For readers of </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Cormac McCarthy Don DeLillo and Denis Johnson</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Made in America</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>modern epic about the machinery of power and the quiet violence of inheritance.</strong></p>