Serialization of The Deal, Chapter 5

My friend Joe Hutsko contacted with the intriguing offer to serialize his novel, The Deal, on Boing Boing. I jumped at the chance. I read The Deal when it first came out in 1999 and loved the thrilling story about a Apple-like company's undertaking to create an iPhone-like device.

Here's a link to Chapter 05 as a PDF. (Here's chapter 1 and an introduction to the book, and here are the previous chapters)

To buy a paperback copy of the book, visit JOEyGADGET or purchase directly from Amazon.

[#1 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator , July 5, 2008 7:35 AM]

I expect people will have more to say once they've read some of the novel.

[#2 posted by ROSSINDETROIT , July 5, 2008 8:26 AM]

I just cracked open Against the Day so I've got 1050 pages of Pynchon to wade through before I contemplate reading anything else. If I survive this tome with my will to read intact, The Deal looks pretty interesting.

[#3 posted by JOEyGADGET , July 6, 2008 8:02 AM]

Ross, I have yet to crack open Against The Day but Pynchon is my favorite writer, and I just reread Crying of Lot 49 and Vineland, my two favorite Pynchon "easy reads," so to speak. Thanks for the comments on The Deal (you too, Teresa), and have a great summer. -Joe Hutsko

[#4 posted by boingaddict , July 8, 2008 3:07 PM]

Just finished the whole novel, and lets just say i didn't do much throughout two days at work. I really enjoyed it. Couple things were predictable, but overall it was a intense read throughout.

[#5 posted by n8man , September 13, 2008 3:56 PM]

Where's the .txt?