Unassigned Territory

Praised by Publishers Weekly as "intriguing and funny" and written by a National Book Award nominee, this "desert noir" traces a draft-dodging evangelical's road trip across the Mojave. Obadiah Wheeler encounters a world of temptation in the form of a pretty girl who's on the run, and his spiritual journey through the badlands is further complicated by an extraterrestrial relic and multiple homicides. A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.