The Parade
Dave EggersFour, nicknamed "The Clock," is one of the highway's most experienced operators, never falling short of his assigned schedule. He drives the RS-80, stopping only to sleep & eat the food provided by the company. But Nine is 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 draws Four's ire, but when illness, corruption, & theft compromise their high-stakes mission, Four & Nine discover danger far greater than anything they could pose to one another.
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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, & The Lifters.
He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, & a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. McSweeney’s also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world.
Eggers is the co-founder of 826 National, a network of youth writing & tutoring centers around the United States.