Far North Author:Marcel Theroux 2009 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE — Out on the frontierof a failed state, a plane crashes at the edge of an abandoned city. Sheriff Makepeace, the city's last citizen, resolves to go in search of the plane's origins and what is left of a world ravaged b... more »y climate change and war. In this startling, post-apocalyptic landscape, Makepeace encounters violent stockaded villages, irradiated cities, and work camps laboring to harness the technologies of a vanished civilization. Far North is "an absorbing end-of-days fable" (GQ), and an adventure through an unforgettable land, in the company of a remarkable hero for our times.« less