Cockpit

Cockpit

<b>From the acclaimed author of <i>Being There</i> and <i>The Painted Bird</i>, this “dazzling succession of . . . erotic anecdotes . . . brilliantly def[ies] the limitations of its form” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>).</b><br />  <br /> An agent known only as Tarden is a former operative of the mysterious security agency “the Service.” He has erased himself from all dossiers and transcripts. Now a fugitive, he moves across the landscape free of identity, in search of adventure and intrigue. But Tarden is a man of many disguises, and he is alternately avenger and savior, judge and trickster, as he enters the lives of others, forcing them into the arena of his judgment. In <i>Cockpit</i>, Kosinski is at his most startling and powerful, stripping away pretension and illusions of security to reveal the source of real strength within.<br />  <br /> “Jerzy Kosinki’s work glistens with social observation and psychological apprehension. Not since Conrad has an Eastern European found so profound a voice in the English language.” —<i>Time</i><br />  <br /> “A vicious peepshow-parable about a world we reluctantly recognize now and then.” —<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>