02205cam a2200361 i 4500 1164748282 TxAuBib 20190404120000.0 181011s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018047628 9780525655305 hardcover 0525655301 hardcover (OCoLC)1044542964 DLC eng rda DLC MJ8 OCLCO VI# IEP GO6 FEM IMD IGA IUK YDX OCLCO TxAuBib rda Eggers, Dave, author. The parade : a novel / Dave Eggers. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2019] ©2019. 179 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. "Four and Nine are partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering from ten years of civil war. Together, operating under pseudonyms and anonymous to potential kidnappers, they are given a new machine, the RS-90, and tasked with building a highway that connects the country's far-flung villages with the capital. Four, nicknamed the Clock, is one of the company's most experienced operators, never falling short of his assigned schedule. He drives the RS-90, stopping only to sleep and eat the food provided by the company. But Nine is an agent of chaos: speeding ahead on his vehicle, chatting and joking with locals, eating at nearby bars and roadside food stands, he threatens the schedule, breaks protocol, and endangers the work that they must complete in time for a planned government parade. His every action draws Four's ire, but when illness, corruption, and theft compromise their high-stakes mission, Four and Nine discover danger far greater than anything they could pose to each other."-- Provided by publisher. 20190404. Government contractors Fiction. Corruption Fiction. Allegories. Thrillers (Fiction.) Political fiction. TXKIP