Silent Light: A Novel

At the start of Mark Jacob’s remarkable new novel—his first book in thirteen years—thirty-seven-year-old Smith wins a “stash” of diamonds in a poker game. The only catch: he has to find them.

A Louisiana native, Smith is currently employed on an oil platform off the west coast of Africa, while the diamonds are somewhere in the immense, war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo. But Smith’s grown tired of the platform and he hates the idea of wasting a full house. One last adventure, he tell...