A Person of Interest » (Unabridged, 13 CDs, 16 hrs)

Susan Choi is the author of the novel American Woman, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.

With its propulsive drive, vividly realized characters, and profound observations about soul and society, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Susan Choi's latest novel is as thrilling as it is lyrical, and confirms her place as one of the most important novelists chronicling the American experience. Intricately plotted and psychologically acute, A Person of Interest exposes the fault lines of paranoia and dread that have fractured American life and asks how far one man must go to escape his regrets. Professor Lee, an Asian-born mathematician near retirement age would seem the last person to attract the attention of FBI agents. Yet after a colleague becomes the latest victim of a serial bomber, Lee must endure the undermining power of suspicion and face the ghosts of his past.

The Barnes & Noble Review

Like her fictionalized retelling of the Patty Hearst story in 2004's American Woman, Susan Choi's A Person of Interest centers on the explosive and infamous entrance of terror and suspicion into unlikely quarters. A math professor at a midwestern state school -- referred to only by his last name, Lee -- is thrown from his desk by a mail bomb that kills the talented and charismatic computer scientist in the neighboring office. We know from the outset that Lee is innocent. The perpetrator, we learn much later, is in fact an intellectual anti-technology obsessive guilty of numerous bombings and reminiscent of the so-called Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.