Experience Shadows The Sizes Of Cities, A Novel Edited By Gregory W. Beaubien Provided As Text

this fastpaced, sexy noir thriller with a visual style, set in Morocco in, author and journalist Gregory W.
Beaubien tells a gripping tale of young travelers pulled by love, money and revenge toward their fates in the deserts of North Africa.


While traveling with friends, the young American reporter Will Clark is drawn into killing a drug dealer.
Pursued by other gang members and the police, his bond with his companions broken and his sense of himself shattered, Will plunges further into danger even as he searches for the elusive blonde Stacey Snow, whose love might make him whole againor doom them both.
A literary thriller that combines action and suspense with exotic locations, "Shadows the Sizes of Cities" is the debut novel of a new talent in fiction.
Beaubien based the book in part on his travel writing for the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago SunTimes, the Los Angeles Times, and other newspapers and magazines.
This dark thriller starts off innocently enough, with four friends traveling in Morocco, But quickly, it becomes clear that the narrator, Will Clark, is actually harboring a secret that turns the four into fugitives, not only from the law, but from revenge.
As the four attempt to escape it back to Europe, Morocco and the North African desert are all brought to life almost as if in a travelogue.
We are taken by train along the coast of Morocco, into a small seaside town, to Rabat, and by car through the Atlas Mountains, through small towns, and the place where the road simply ends and the Algerian desert begins, all through their flight the twists, sudden revelations, and an unexpected but elusive woman keep the action going to its inescapable end.
The book comes off feeling similar to Camus's The Stranger, as Will must face the consequences of his actionsboth those taken and those not.
Keep me reading, on the last night well into the AM, In this tensionfilled debut thriller, you get rather quickly to the point where you dont trust anyoneand that includes firstperson narrator Will Clark, who claims to be a travel writer from Chicago.
Yet it always seems possible he might be something more, You never really learn how Will acquired his fighting skills or whether there is more to his agenda than appears on the surface.
Beaubien takes advantage of using a firstperson narrative to let Will tell you exactly what and how much he wants you to know.

The book starts in Madrid, where Will is waiting to hook up with three friends for a trip to Morocco and a writing assignment.
He needs money, and hes preoccupied with “the Dutchmans offer,” a mysterious phrase invoked a couple of times too many, though when the explanation finally comes, it turns the story on its head.

If you dont trust Will, you certainly dont trust his friends, Theres Tammy, the spoiled rich girl accustomed to having the whole world bend to her wishes, and her loser Wills opinion Irish boyfriend Nigel.
Nor do you trust Wills womenthe unpleasant Marissa, especially, and Stacy, whos just arrive on the scene, Stacy keeps turning up, her cool blonde beauty a salve to Wills overheated spirit, but who is she, really
Tammy and Nigel and Will and Marissa meet up in Madrid before heading across the Strait of Gibraltar to Tangier.
The couple recklessly embroils Will and Marissa in a smalltown drug deal that goes frightfully bad, People are dead, and the

escape south to Marrakesh is risky, I really dont want to say more about the fastmoving plot, to let you discover its surprises for yourself.

Much of the excitement in reading the book is that the storyand Willare never predictable, You cant be sure where youll end upgeographically, morally, or metaphorically, If theres a fault in the writing, it is that Beaubien via Will tends to name the emotions hes feeling, rather than trusting the readers to discern them through his Wills actions.

Beaubien is a journalist and has a reporters eye for descriptive detail that takes you right to where you feel the gritty desert, the heat, and the hostile stares of the men in tea shops.
If youve been to Morocco, you will experience it all again, down to the hairraising trek over the Atlas mountains.
If you havent, you'll believe you have, This dense atmosphere is one of the books most compelling aspects,
not very well written but a page turner, . . read while in Morocco so the sights and sounds were very relevant! My misconception was that I expected this novel to be an urban thriller, in the noir genre, probably set in an America megacity.


The reality is that it is an exotic and erotic fatal road trip mainly set in North Africa :
Gregory W.
Beaubiens first professional article, about a punk rock club, appeared in the Chicago Reader in, Since then he has written hundreds of feature stories for newspapers, magazines and websites that have included the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Travel Leisure and Yahoo Travel.
Shadows the Sizes of Cities Moresby Press, a sensual thriller set in Spain, Morocco, Amsterdam and Chicago, is his first novel.
In May of, Beaubien completed a new novel, a crime thriller with a supernatural undercurrent called THE DEVIL IS WAITING.
He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter, Gregory W. Beaubien's first professional article, about a punk rock club, appeared in the Chicago Reader in, Since then he has written hundreds of feature stories for newspapers, magazines and websites that have included the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Travel Leisure and Yahoo Travel.
"Shadows the Sizes of Cities" Moresby Press, a sensual thriller set in Spain, Morocco, Amsterdam and Chicago, is his first novel.
In May of, Beaubien completed a new novel, a crime thriller with a supernatural undercurrent called THE DEVIL IS WAITING.
He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter, sitelink.