Jim Nisbet has owned and operated a gas station and general store, worked as a surveyor, an assistant nuclear engineer, a radio and movie sound technician, and now builds electronics furniture. He has also published eight novels, five volumes of poetry, and a number of one-act plays. His novel Dark Companion was shortlisted for the Hammet prize, and he is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee.

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WINDWARD PASSAGE
Overlook Press, April 2010
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Agent: Matt Bialer

“Jim Nisbet—whose pen is mightier than a million swords—does it again with Windward Passage. This is a book that should not be missed.”—Michael Connelly

With shades of Philip K. Dick and James Ellroy, this gnarled mystery is set in the parallel near-future. A ship named for a jellyfish sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and a nearly-completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor’s sister, and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to unravel a mystery that rapidly widens from death at sea to international conspiracy.

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