George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic. His previous books include The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (winner of the National Book Award), The Assassins'Gate: America in Iraq, and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (winner of the Hitchens Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography). He is also the author of two novels and a play, and the editor of a twovolume edition of the essays of George Orwell.
"Every once in a while, a good dystopian novel strikes the perfect balance . . . The Emergency is one of these novels. What Packer is trying to tell us about our world is neither too obvious nor too ambiguous . . . [Packer] approaches all of his characters with empathy, showing readers where we can do better . . . A well-wrought, colorful and interesting story which asks us urgently to spend time
