Moondogs: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Dazzling…engaging…readers will be gratified by the ambition and raw energy on the display in this particularly promising debut.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “[A] debut novel that combines magical realism, geopolitics, and comic book-style super-heroics with shoot-’em-up action, domestic drama, and daddy issues…Yates achieves an extraordinary synthesis of tenderness and brutality, making us question our own sympathies.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Gritty, ambitious…The vibrant and convincing setting coupled with the well-drawn major characters make for…much to enjoy here.”

  — Library Journal

• “Yates handles the multiple points of view and fragmented narrative flawlessly. An unusual and unusually involving first novel with strong characters and nifty supernatural effects.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Like one of his own characters, Yates is a bruho, endowed with magical vision that allows him to see the invisible strands of fate and luck that bind people to each other. He is also a sharpshooter, able to survey an entire city of millions, and then, in an instant, train his sights on an individual target, focusing with great precision on delicate movements of the head and the heart.”

  — Charles Yu, author of How To Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe

• “Moondogs is the thrilla’ in Manila, a rollicking mash-up of magic and mayhem that grabs you by the collar and won’t let go. Alexander Yates sizzles.”

  — Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child and Angels of Destruction

• “Yates is the real thing: a unique literary voice and natural storyteller with indelible characters, thrill-ride geopolitics and narrative mastery.”

  — Arthur Flowers, author of Another Good Loving Blues

• “An electric and fierce debut novel where strangers share a world with the estranged, and their hidden secrets and open hostilities are equally combustible. Yates writes with a sense of color and heat that crackles in the voices of his star-crossed characters and adds a vivid glow to the streets of Manila and waters of the Philippines. Moondogs beckons, drawing readers onward with a vibrant intensity that is both lyrical and thrilling.”

  — Ravi Howard, author of Like Trees, Walking

• “The greatest of Yates’ many talents is his ability to make us feel like insiders in so many different worlds and minds. He has Elmore Leonard’s logistical chops and Charles Portis’ sense of humor, but the juggling act of Moondogs is entirely his own—and nothing ever touches the ground.”

  — Roy Kesey, author of All Over