Tim O'Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most. His new novel's ironic depiction of a post-Iraq war, mid-covid, and mid-Trump world is piercing and razor-sharp."" -Haruki Murakami. An American Master returns- the author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery sparks "" a satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit "" (Kirkus, starred review)Named one of Fall 2023's most anticipated books- New York Times, Associated Press, Esquire, Kirkus, Goodreads, LitHub, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and more. At 11-34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California."" How much is on hand, would you say? "" he asked the teller."" I'll want it all."" "" You're robbing me? "" He revealed a Temptation. 38 Special. The teller, a diminutive redhead named Angie Bing, collected eighty-one thousand dollars. Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag."" I'm sorry about this, "" he said, "" but I'll have to ask you to take a ride with me "" .