Cloudthief by Rich, Nathaniel
Cloudthief by Rich, Nathaniel

Cloudthief

One of the Los Angeles Times's 12 Best Books of SummerA Chicago Tribune "Coolest Book of Summer"...
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Author: Nathaniel Rich
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Cloudthief by Rich, Nathaniel

Cloudthief

$33.60
Cloudthief by Rich, Nathaniel

Cloudthief

$33.60
Author: Nathaniel Rich
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

One of the Los Angeles Times's 12 Best Books of Summer
A Chicago Tribune "Coolest Book of Summer"

"A heady and diabolical mix of atmospheric road trip, mad caper, and risky love story . . . Rich has ingeniously crafted a seductive bull's-eye thriller." --Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)

Why settle for nothing, when you can steal everything?

Forget banks, casinos, museums--society's most valuable treasure sits in the giant, anonymous data centers that power modern life. There, in endless rows of hard drives, lies the sum of our civilization's knowledge, all of the world's personal and private truths, uploaded and saved. They wait unseen, unexploited, and, most critically, unguarded.

Tim is a climate journalist disillusioned with chronicling the end of the world. Virginia is an evasive, paranoid, and technologically savvy con artist who has found an ingenious way to live off the grid in the heart of Manhattan. Joined by desire and desperation, they hatch a plan to steal secrets. But they have secrets of their own--secrets they can't tell each other, secrets that could destroy them both...

With their last few dollars and some dimestore wigs they set out for the outskirts of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the unlikely site of the world's largest repository of knowledge--a data center the size of a small city--to attempt a brazen heist that, whether they fail or succeed, will change their lives forever.

But the heist is only the beginning.

From the award-winning author Nathaniel Rich, Cloudthief is a heist novel for a new era, in which the most valuable things in life are virtual, privacy is a sick joke, and security is relative. After all is lost, what remains?

Author: Nathaniel Rich
Publisher: MCD
Published: 07/14/2026
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780374619794


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/06/2026
Library Journal 05/01/2026 pg. 102
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2026
Booklist 07/01/2026

About the Author

Nathaniel Rich is the author of Cloudthief (2026) and three previous novels, all New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice selections: King Zeno (2018); Odds Against Tomorrow (2013); and The Mayor's Tongue (2008). His short fiction has won the Emily Clark Balch Prize and been a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction. He has also written two works of nonfiction: Second Nature (2021), which includes the story that serves as the basis for the film Dark Waters; and Losing Earth (2019), a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Losing Earth is being adapted into a film directed by Tom McCarthy.
Rich is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a frequent contributor to The Atlantic, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, he teaches at Tulane University and lives in New Orleans.


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