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Book review: Sinister spycraft, weird horror as Jeff VanderMeer returns to Area X in Absolution
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Weird fiction writer Jeff VanderMeer blends espionage intrigue with horror in Absolution.
PHOTOS: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX, DITTE VALENTE
By Jeff VanderMeer
Science-fiction/Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Paperback/528 pages/$24.98
In a remote ruin called Dead Town, in a place called the Forgotten Coast, in an unnamed backwater of the US, a group of biologists set up camp to study the landscape.
