World Pacific, (Paperback)

<p><b>A <i>New Yorker </i>Best Book of 2025</b></p><p><b>"Terrific . . . John le Carré meets Evelyn Waugh."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</b></p><p><b>Set in San Francisco and the Asian Pacific during the outbreak of the Second World War, a darkly comic novel of intrigue, adventure, and the perils of self-invention from the author of <i>The Torqued Man.</i></b></p><p>In 1939, boys' adventure writer Richard Halifax vanishes in the Pacific while sailing from Hong Kong to San Francisco as part of the World's Fair festivities.</p><p>Hildegard Rauch, an émigré painter and the daughter of Germany's greatest living writer in exile, finds her twin brother in a coma after an attempted suicide, leaving behind a mysterious note that sends her searching for the truth about her brother's relationship with Richard Halifax and the dangerous secret he entrusted to the writer before his voyage.</p><p>Simon Faulk, a British intelligence officer hunting Nazi spies in California, learns of the arrival of a mysterious American agent from across the Pacific, part of a joint German-Japanese operation.</p><p>Told in the alternating voices of these three characters whose fates intersect, <i>World Pacific</i> is a madcap, quixotic tale that explores the many forms of shipwreck, exile, betrayal, and the stories we tell ourselves in the fight to stay afloat.</p>

• World Pacific, (Paperback)
• Author: Peter Mann
• ISBN: 9780063375352
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-09-29
• Page Count: 400