<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE ¿ A <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BOOK REVIEW EDITOR''S CHOICE </b><b>¿</b><b>From the award-winning, bestselling author of <i>Billy Lynn¿s Long Halftime Walk</i> comes a brilliant and propulsive new novel about greed, power, and American complicity set in Haiti<br><br>"An engrossing, psychologically complex and politically astute novel." <i>¿The New York Times</i></b><br><br><b>Haiti, 1991.</b> When a violent coup d¿¿t leads to the fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, American expat Matt Amaker is forced to abandon his idyllic, beachfront scuba business. With the rise of a brutal military dictatorship and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country¿s most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in the chaos¿and others are just looking to make it through another day.<br><br>Desperate for money¿and survival¿Matt teams up with his best friend and business partner Alix Variel, the adventurous only son