Got a new review of Eric Barnes’ Shimmer for INDenverTimes.
White collar criminals have gotten rather a short shrift in recent literature. With the exception of Don Delillo’s Cosmopolis and William Gibson’s recent work, few serious novelists have bothered delving into the lives of those new economy billionaires who make the new global economy hum – and who seem more than willing to gleefully destroy said economy in the name of their own insatiable greed. It’s almost as if these technology billionaires inhabit the cultural space heretofore reserved for philosophers and artistic geniuses, as if they’re not quite human, their internal lives so alien from those of us normal folk that authors are intimidated by the prospect of trying to capture them in literature. Luckily for readers, Eric Barnes is completely fearless. His debut novel, Shimmer, is an insightful and incisive rendering of the kind of high-tech confidence man that it’s impossible not to recognize from the 24-hour news cycle.
