Four&Nineare partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering from ten years of civil war. Together, operating under pseudonyms & anonymous to potential kidnappers, they are given a new machine, theRS-80, & tasked with building a highway that connects the country's far-flung villages with the capital.Four, nicknamed"The Clock,"is one of the highway's most experienced operators, never falling short of his assigned schedule. He drives theRS-80, stopping only to sleep & eat the food provided by the company. ButNineis an agent of chaos: speeding ahead on his vehicle, chatting & joking with locals, eating at nearby bars & roadside food stands, he threatens the schedule, breaks protocol, & endangers the work that they must complete in time for a planned government parade. His every action drawsFour'sire, but when illness, corruption, & theft compromise their high-stakes mission,Four&Ninediscover danger far greater than anything they could pose to one another.°°°Dave Eggersis the author of manybooks, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, & The Lifters.He is founder ofMcSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based inSanFranciscothat produces books, a humor website, & a journal of new writing,McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.McSweeney’salso publishesVoice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world.Eggersis the co-founder of826 National, a network of youth writing & tutoring centers around the United States.