Seven Down
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Publisher Description
In this quirky, character-driven debut novel seven hotel employees puzzle out the events of a botched assassination attempt — the next read for fans of Fredrik Backman (Anxious People) and Matt Haig (The Midnight Library).
Finalist for the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best First Novel
Seven ordinary hotel employees. Catering, Reservations, Management. Seven moles, waiting for years for a single code word, a trigger that will send them into action in a violent event that will end their dull lives as they know them.
The event has failed: the action was a disaster. Each employee is being debriefed by an agent of an invisible organization. These are the transcripts of those interviews. What they reveal is not just the intricate mechanism of an international assassination, but the yearnings inside each of its pawns, the desperation and secret rage that might cause any one of us to sign up, sell out, and take a plunge into darkness.
Both sinister and absurd, Seven Down is a puzzle to be solved, a comedy, and a panorama of life. At once sociological, satirical, and scary, it paints portraits of the mundane human failings behind geopolitical machinations.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Seven people accept a dubious offer to add a little danger and excitement into their lives in David Whitton’s strange, brilliantly satirical mystery. When a motley crew of hotel workers are recruited by a shady cabal of faceless international power brokers, things really don’t go as planned. More than just a spy thriller, Whitton’s riveting book is also a tale about average people—an oversharing receptionist, a hedonistic kitchen worker, a paranoid security guard—searching for meaning in a life where they feel like cogs in a machine. Thanks to an intriguing plot structure that introduces the characters one at a time, Whitton doles out all the information but lets us put it together ourselves. With its eclectic characters, each with their darkly funny quirks, Seven Down is a fresh and entertaining story that teases your brain in all the right ways.
