“Reading Death Valley is like going on a road trip into the hallucinatory landscape of the CIA’s repressed memories. Hypnotic and startling, with a cast of troubled artists and agents, this sensual novel is a lush fever dream of power, politics, betrayal and revenge. With scenes so vivid and unflinching and downright bizarre, this novel gets under your skin like the desert sand at its core.” JENNIFER LOVE GROVE, author of Watch How We Walk “Equal parts Twin Peaks and Alice in Wonderland, Susan Perly’s Death Valley is a Film-Noir-Spy-Western – hallucinogenic, thought-provoking and bizarre enough to satisfy anyone who thinks about art, nuclear fallout, classic films, conspiracies or love. It’s wild enough to be fiction, and real enough to blow your mind.” MICHELLE BERRY, author of Interfe

