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New York
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781944527099
Publisher: Natural Press
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.51
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Ian Bloom wrote New York at age 33, after his return from Dubai and Switzerland and before his passage to Japan - a searing, symphonic screen novel that detonates with the force of the modern American myth. New York is a noir epic of espionage, betrayal, and the corrosive glamour of power - where Wall Street and the Intelligence Community are twin arms of the same hydra, and identity is a weapon with no safety.
Set in the shadow mazes of the Lower East Side and the vaults of Langley, New York traces the intertwined rises of Dante, a CIA golden boy turned financial tactician, and Theo Cassel, a skater-brained felon engineered into a covert instrument of statecraft. At the nexus of capital markets and covert ops, they descend into the psychic and physical battleground of the American simulation - where hedge funds launder wars, café fronts conceal plutonium trades, and every act of patriotism is encrypted in plausible deniability.
Written with Bloom's signature restraint, cinematographic velocity, and X-ray precision, New York reads like The Departed reprogrammed by Thomas Pynchon and ghostwritten by a techno Graham Greene. The dialogue is loaded. The structure is pure tactician's design. And the world it exposes is terrifyingly real: privatized intelligence, ritualized finance, and the American empire wired to implode.
New York is statecraft in street clothes.
God's eye goes dark. The machine keeps moving.
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