Authority -- Jeff VanderMeer, Paperback

In Authority, the New York Times bestselling second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.

After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X--a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization--has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray.

John Rodrigues (aka Control) is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he's pledged to serve.

Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: 05/06/2014
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.50h x 4.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374104108

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/24/2014
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2014
Library Journal 05/15/2014 pg. 57
Booklist 05/15/2014 pg. 22
Entertainment Weekly 05/16/2014 pg. 70
Shelf Awareness 05/20/2014
New York Times Book Review 06/01/2014 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 06/08/2014 pg. 34
Entertainment Weekly 07/04/2014 pg. 68
Entertainment Weekly 08/22/2014 pg. 17
Entertainment Weekly 12/12/2014 pg. 73

About the Author
Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America's American Fantastic Tales and multiple year's-best anthologies. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.