Coe Vessel, son of a legendary adman, lands the much-anticipated ad campaign of artist-provocateur Watanabe's latest creation, a mysterious watch called Cassius Seven. The enigmatic Watanabe claims the watch can kill its wearer. Convinced it's a high-art hoax, Coe and his team of renegade creatives work furiously to land the campaign and persuade the world that the watch (rebranded as Death Watch) is the must-have accessory for end-time capitalism.
Thanks to the team's inventive launch, Death Watch finds eager buyers among the brazenly cocky, thoroughly disillusioned, and silently suicidal. Death Watch soon becomes a cultural phenomenon, harbinger of a new nihilism, and a target for moral outrage. Exactly what Watanabe envisioned. But his hoax turns horrific when the watches start going off, killing their wearers. Appalled, Coe and his team reverse course and work feverishly to alert would-be customers. But can they stop the juggernaut they set in motion?
"Fans of The Menu and Glass Onion take note: Stona Fitch’s Death Watch is a timely, subversive, and deviously clever sendup of late-stage capitalism from one of the sharpest writers in the game. " --Chris Holm
"DEATH WATCH draws you relentlessly into a dark, witty, and subversive story about our times and its discontents that will keep you reading until the sun rises or the bottle of whiskey gives out, whichever comes first. I loved it!" --Douglas Preston
"Like our best satires, this book makes you laugh, but laugh nervously. And cringe because what is supposed to be fanciful exaggeration cuts too close to the truth. DEATH WATCH pulls no punches and deserves a cult readership." --Paul Tremblay
"What a fantastic book. DEATH WATCH is smart and shocking, edged in the darkest of humor, utterly compelling. It's a fast read that I'll be thinking about for a long time." --Joseph Finder
Genre: Thriller
Thanks to the team's inventive launch, Death Watch finds eager buyers among the brazenly cocky, thoroughly disillusioned, and silently suicidal. Death Watch soon becomes a cultural phenomenon, harbinger of a new nihilism, and a target for moral outrage. Exactly what Watanabe envisioned. But his hoax turns horrific when the watches start going off, killing their wearers. Appalled, Coe and his team reverse course and work feverishly to alert would-be customers. But can they stop the juggernaut they set in motion?
"Fans of The Menu and Glass Onion take note: Stona Fitch’s Death Watch is a timely, subversive, and deviously clever sendup of late-stage capitalism from one of the sharpest writers in the game. " --Chris Holm
"DEATH WATCH draws you relentlessly into a dark, witty, and subversive story about our times and its discontents that will keep you reading until the sun rises or the bottle of whiskey gives out, whichever comes first. I loved it!" --Douglas Preston
"Like our best satires, this book makes you laugh, but laugh nervously. And cringe because what is supposed to be fanciful exaggeration cuts too close to the truth. DEATH WATCH pulls no punches and deserves a cult readership." --Paul Tremblay
"What a fantastic book. DEATH WATCH is smart and shocking, edged in the darkest of humor, utterly compelling. It's a fast read that I'll be thinking about for a long time." --Joseph Finder
Genre: Thriller
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