John Mandel is the author of five books, including Station Eleven, Last Night in Montreal, Sea of Tranquility, and The Glass Hotel. 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.Įmily St. Synopsis: From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. John Mandel's last novel was set in a world devastated by a worldwide flu epidemic. When the financial empire collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. John Mandel (/ s e n t d n m æ n d l / born 1979) is a Canadian novelist and essayist. John Mandel Hardcover, 320 pages purchase Emily St. 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.” High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is running an international Ponzi scheme, moving imaginary sums of money through clients’ accounts. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. Audiobook Length: 10 hours and 29 minutes
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