In 1968 two boys are born into a large family, both named for their grandfather, Peter Henry Hightower. One boy—Peter—grows up in Africa and ends up a journalist in Granada. The other—Petey—becomes a minor criminal, first in Cleveland and then in Kiev. In 1995, Petey runs afoul of his associates and disappears. But the criminals, bent on revenge, track down the wrong cousin, and the Peter in Granada finds himself on the run. He bounces from one family member to the next, piecing together his cousin’s involvement in international crime while learning the truth about his family’s complicated history. Along the way the original Peter Henry Hightower’s story is revealed, until it catches up with that of his children, revealing how Peter and Petey have been living in their grandfather’s shadow all along.
Sep 092014
Complex Chinese rights to Robert McCammon’s THE BORDER to Nautilus by Gray Tan at the Grayhawk Agency, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Audio rights to RITA Award winner Carolyn Crane’s AGAINST THE DARK, OFF THE EDGE, and INTO THE SHADOWS, the first three books in the self-published Undercover Associates series, to Vanessa Willoughby at Tantor, by Cameron McClure.
Kirkus: Smart and sardonic, with wry echoes from classic tales (a little “Telltale Heart,” anyone?) mixed up in an inventive, winning narrative. Another dark fantasy by master of the genre Bennett (American Elsewhere, 2013, etc.), a literate swirl of religion, politics, finance and other sources of misery. “You know you are my foremost Continental operative.” Thus a suit to our protagonist, a divinologist who just happens to know her way around a conspiracy theory. 
Literary Review: “Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon …disrupts the standard alien arrival cliches in numerous ways. …Okorafor brings science fiction back to its Utopian ideals. …Writing a novel in which optimism is not naivety is a challenge, and it is accomplished here with panache. …Patriotic and ambiguous, all-embracing and proudly independent, with a sense that any single viewpoint might be as fictional as aliens turning up: Lagoon offers a clever swerve from science fiction’s usual tracks.”
UK rights to Emily Winslow’s third suspense novel, THE RED HOUSE, about when Maxwell and his fiancé Imogen move to Imogen’s childhood home and Maxwell starts having strange and impossible memories of his own childhood, until he begins to suspect that he may be Imogen’s younger brother who was lost at age 3, and even worse, he suspects Imogen knows that he is, to Susie Dunlop at Allison & Busby, for publication in 2015, by Cameron McClure.
British Fantasy Award nominee Molly Tanzer’s first novel, VERMILION, an alternate history steampunk set in 1870 America featuring a 19-year-old half-Chinese girl who passes as a boy so she can work as an exorcist, and whose investigation into why so many poor young Chinese workers are disappearing from Chinatown leads her to a sanatorium in the Rocky Mountains, and a very undead villain, to Ross E. Lockhart at Word Horde for publication in Spring 2015, by Cameron McClure.