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Dec 14, 2023 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Ben Fountain
Ron Butler's deft performance fully encompasses this expansive story of political and economic crisis in Haiti, based on true events in 1991. Matt is an American college dropout working at a scuba-diving business when President Aristide is overthrown, pushing the country close to turmoil. After business dries up, Matt partners with a crew to seek deep-sea treasure. As the threat of political upheaval looms, Matt becomes embroiled in mounting conflict with the country's political forces.
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Oct 28, 2023 | 
bookreporter.com | Ben Fountain
The main character in DEVIL MAKES THREE is the country of Haiti. I am leading off with this observation not because it’s all that obvious but because it took me a long time to figure it out. Yes, there are actual human characters in the novel, specifically Matt Amaker, an American diver and amateur treasure hunter whose experiences form the backbone of the story. Matt’s character arc is as choppy as the Caribbean on a windy day.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
ajc.com | Jeff Calder |Ben Fountain
“Treasure is trouble,” says Matt Amaker, co-owner of ScubaRave, one of Haiti’s few professionally certified diving businesses. Having once worked on a salvage boat, Matt is familiar with the delusions of gold fever big-talk: “a minute into the conversation and you’re suddenly richer than the Walmart guy.”Not that it matters, because, for the moment, Matt is a perfectly content “blan” — a white foreigner — chasing an honest buck.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Ben Fountain
FictionBen Fountain's new novel, "Devil Makes Three," is a study of opportunism and deception during a political crisis. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
powells.com | Ben Fountain
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk comes a brilliant and propulsive new novel about greed, power, and American complicity set in Haiti Haiti, 1991. When a violent coup d'état leads to the fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, American expat Matt Amaker is forced to abandon his idyllic, beachfront scuba business.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
booksoup.com | Ben Fountain
Haiti, 1991. When a violent coup d'├ętat leads to the fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, American expat Matt Amaker is forced to abandon his idyllic, beachfront scuba business. With the rise of a brutal military dictatorship and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country's most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in the chaos-and others are just looking to make it through another day.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
bookshop.org | Ben Fountain
(Author) FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Description LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE - A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE - WASHINGTON POST BEST FICTION OF 2023 - From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk comes a brilliant and propulsive new novel about greed, power, and American complicity set in Haiti "An engrossing, psychologically complex and politically astute novel."...
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
politics-prose.com | Ben Fountain
When a violent coup d'état leads to the fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, American expat Matt Amaker is forced to abandon his idyllic, beachfront scuba business. With the rise of a brutal military dictatorship and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country's most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in the chaos-and others are just looking to make it through another day.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
saturdayeveningpost.com | Ben Fountain |Ann Patchett |Zadie Smith |Kim Foote
Visit our store at bookshop.org/shop/satevepost. Fictionby Ben FountainA thrilling tale of corruption and ethics in the aftermath of the 1991 Haitian coup d’état, told mostly through the eyes of a scuba tour guide, an undercover agent, and a local. by Ann PatchettTo pass the time while sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lara Nelson entertains her daughters with stories of her long-ago theater camp boyfriend who became a Hollywood star.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
lmtonline.com | Ben Fountain |Ron Charles
- - - In 2008, Malcolm Gladwell published an essay in the New Yorker about late-blooming geniuses who gather their powers incrementally. His prime example was Ben Fountain, a real estate lawyer in Dallas who decided, against all reason, that he wanted to be a writer. It took almost 20 years for Fountain's first book, "Brief Encounters With Che Guevara," to get published, but the response to this collection of stories was rapturous.
