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THE SNARES
Rights sold: UK/BC: Bedford Square Publishers; Japanese: Hayakawa
PRAISE:
“At once a gripping political thriller and a tense family drama, Grewal-Kök’s debut . . . [is] a striking and uncompromising meditation on the war on terror’s human cost.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Brilliant and tragic. . . If Graham Greene had written a Shakespearian tragedy, it would read something like this.”
—LitHub, “Most Anticipated Books of 2025”
“Here is, at long last, our immigrant John le Carré. The Snares is a propulsive thriller that dives into our technological chaos, political deceptions, and transnational identities with fierce intelligence and wit. Rav Grewal-Kök is a fearless and visionary writer.”
—Xuan Juliana Wang, author of Home Remedies
“Profoundly moving, harrowing, exactingly plotted—you could say Rav Grewal-Kök’s debut novel is pure literary thriller. You could also say The Snares is the chilling portrait of one man’s encounter with fate, an encounter which, like any encounter with fate, produces that thrill, that shiver between the shoulder blades Nabokov calls ‘the highest form of emotion humanity has attained when evolving pure art.’”
—Kathryn Davis, author of Duplex
“The Snares is a pressure-cooker of an espionage novel. Grewal-Kök takes us into the dark underbelly of the post 9/11 war on terror in a way I’ve never experienced before—and have been unnerved by ever since.”
—Graham Moore, author of The Wealth of Shadows and The Last Days of Night
“Taut, morally complex, and unforgettable, The Snares is an electrifying literary spy thriller on par with Native Speaker.”
—Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy
“Like the tormented hero of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Grewal- Kök’s Punjabi lawyer turned intelligence officer finds himself ensnared in the machinery of the War on Terror. Lurching from a state of innocence to a terrible state of complicity—a complicity created in part by his own ambition—he becomes for us a new kind of anti-hero within the modern espionage novel. Although the novel is set in the recent past, it could just as well be a hideous road map for the future.”
—Lawrence Osborne, author of On Java Road and The Ballad of a Small Player
This debut espionage novel centers around Neel Chima, a former Naval officer and federal prosecutor, who is recruited to join a mysterious intelligent agency—one with greater-than-usual powers and fewer-than-usual restrictions. We are tossed into a delicate moment in history post 9/11 during the waning months of George W. Bush’s presidency.
Neel soon finds himself intimately involved in the surveillance of domestic terrorism suspects and the selection of foreigners for drone assassination—men who often resemble his own Sikh family. As he slips further into the job his feelings of ambition grow yet he has ambiguous sense of his morality. He soon starts pulling away from his wife and young daughters. When he makes a critical mistake at work, he is left vulnerable to shadowy figures in the intelligence world who seek to use him in their own, even more radical counterterrorism missions. If he agrees, the world of power will open up wider to him, but if he chooses not to, danger seems imminent.
As we start to feel Neel falling into a web of paranoia, we are not sure what he’ll do, is he the hunter or the hunted?
Rav Grewal-Kok has delivered a gripping and intelligent spy novel that will make you think of John La Carre meets Mohsin Hamid’s EXIT WEST. An epitaph for the failed world on terror -- a rip from the headline's premise rooted in unforgettable characters with strong writing in a story that reveals an unsettling meditation on the great costs of power.
Grewal-Kök’s stories and essays have appeared in the New England Review, Missouri Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Hunger Mountain, The White Review, and elsewhere. He has won an NEA fellowship in prose and is a fiction editor at Fence. He grew up in Hong Kong and on Vancouver Island and now lives in Los Angeles.
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