Alan and his team are initially anxious to deliver their presentation to the king-which features a remote speaker appearing via hologram-but they soon learn the country moves at a snaillike pace. Alan Clay is a 50-something American salesperson for an information technology company angling for a contract to wire King Abdullah Economic City, a Saudi commerce hub. That novel was a globe-trotting tale about giving away money this one features a hero stuck in one place and desperate to make a bundle. This book by McSweeney’s founder Eggers ( Zeitoun, 2009, etc.) inverts the premise of his fiction debut, 2002’s You Shall Know Our Velocity.
A middle-aged man scrapes for his identity in a Saudi Arabian city of the future.
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