The Snares

Praise

“Here is, at long last, our immigrant John le Carré. The Snares is a propulsive thriller that dives into our technological chaos, political deceptions, and transnational identities with fierce intelligence and wit. Rav Grewal-Kök is a fearless and visionary writer.”—Xuan Juliana Wang, author of Home Remedies

“Profoundly moving, harrowing, exactingly plotted—you could say Rav Grewal-Kök’s debut novel is pure literary thriller. You could also say The Snares is the chilling portrait of one man’s encounter with fate, an encounter which, like any encounter with fate, produces that thrill, that shiver between the shoulder blades Nabokov calls ‘the highest form of emotion humanity has attained when evolving pure art.’”—Kathryn Davis, author of Duplex

“The Snares is a pressure-cooker of an espionage novel. Grewal-Kök takes us into the dark underbelly of the post 9/11 war on terror in a way I’ve never experienced before—and have been unnerved by ever since.”—Graham Moore, author of The Wealth of Shadows and The Last Days of Night

“Taut, morally complex, and unforgettable, The Snares is an electrifying literary spy thriller on par with Native Speaker.”—Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy

“Like the tormented hero of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Grewal- Kök’s Punjabi lawyer turned intelligence officer finds himself ensnared in the machinery of the War on Terror. Lurching from a state of innocence to a terrible state of complicity—a complicity created in part by his own ambition—he becomes for us a new kind of anti-hero within the modern espionage novel. Although the novel is set in the recent past, it could just as well be a hideous road map for the future.”—Lawrence Osborne, author of On Java Road and The Ballad of a Small Player