Hawk Mountain

Standouts include ... Conner Habib's Hawk Mountain, a paranoid and unsettling tale of masculinity in crisis. * Guardian, 'The best crime and thriller books of 2022' *
Conner Habib's Hawk Mountainwas one of the most impressive debuts of the year. Set in New England, it explores the long-term consequences of bullying as Todd, now in his 30s, and the father of a young boy, encounters his high school nemesis, although the inevitable reckoning is as innovative as it is poignant. * Irish Times, 'The best crime fiction of 2022' *
Habib ramps the paranoia up to Highsmithian levels * Guardian *
Dripping with menace from the first page, this story of childhood enemies meeting up fifteen years later is utterly enthralling. Brilliantly written with homoerotic undertones, this savage tale is uncompromising in its reflection of teen friendships and isolation, and unflinching in its examination of the delicacy of the human body. There is gold among the gore. I found it compelling, shocking, and beautiful. * Liz Nugent *
Conner Habib writes with an hallucinatory precision, and a kind of merciless humanity, about the poisonous work of repression. His forebears-Poe, Highsmith, even classical tragedy-are clear, but his originality is clearer still. Hawk Mountain is a work of strange, glittering darkness. * Mark O’Connell *