Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Fiction
  3. Contemporary fiction

Read and listen for free for 14 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
0.0(0)

The Arrest

The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what happens when much of what we take for granted - cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters - stops working...

Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't hurt.

Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was. Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers the food grown by his sister, Maddy, at her organic farm. But then Todbaum shows up in an extraordinary vehicle: a retrofitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. Todbaum has spent the Arrest smashing his way across a fragmented and phantasmagorical United States, trailing enmities all the way. Plopping back into the siblings' life with his usual odious panache, his motives are entirely unclear. Can it be that Todbaum wants to produce one more extravaganza? Whatever he's up to, it may fall to Journeyman to stop him.

Written with unrepentant joy and shot through with just the right amount of contemporary dread, The Arrest is speculative fiction at its absolute finest.


Author:

  • Jonathan Lethem

Format:

  • E-book

Duration:

  • 160 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Contemporary fiction
  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Philosophy

More by Jonathan Lethem

Skip the list
  1. A Different Kind of Tension : New and Selected Stories

    Jonathan Lethem

    audiobook
  2. Brooklyn Crime Novel

    Jonathan Lethem

    audiobookbook
  3. Brooklyn Crime Novel : A Novel

    Jonathan Lethem

    audiobook
  4. The Feral Detective: A Novel

    Jonathan Lethem

    audiobook
  5. The Arrest: A Novel

    Jonathan Lethem

    audiobook
  6. The Arrest : A Novel

    Jonathan Lethem

    audiobook
  7. Fight of the Century : Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

    Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman

    audiobookbook
  8. The Feral Detective : A Novel

    Jonathan Lethem

    audiobook
  9. The Feral Detective : From the Bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn

    Jonathan Lethem

    book
  10. Dissidentparken

    Jonathan Lethem

    book
  11. The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye

    Jonathan Lethem

    audiobook

  • 15 books

    Jonathan Lethem

    Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of twelve novels, including The Arrest, The Feral Detective, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. He currently teaches creative writing at Pomona College in California.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms · Imprint ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5