Ben was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Maryland, educated in St. His reviews appear frequently in the New York Times Book Review. He is the author of four “Audible Originals”– Stranger, Inside Jobs, Q&A, and Self Help - and several plays and musicals. He has contributed short stories to many anthologies, as well as in magazines such as Lightspeed. Previously he was a producer on the FX show Legion, and on the upcoming Apple TV+ drama Manhunt. He is the creator and co-showrunner of Tracker, forthcoming on CBS. Dick award in science fiction, the Sidewise Award for alternate history, and France’s Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire.īen also writes for film and television. Ben has won the Edgar Award for mystery writing, the Philip K. His first novel, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, was also a Times bestseller.

He is also the author of the novel Golden State the New York Times bestselling Underground Airlines The Last Policeman and its two sequels the horror novel Bedbugs and several works for young readers. Winters is the author most recently of the novel The Quiet Boy (Mulholland/Little, Brown, 2021). Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe.īen H. But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country's arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost. Victor believes himself to be a good man doing bad work, unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child-who may be Victor's salvation. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called 'the Hard Four.' On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isn't right-with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself.Īs he works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines, tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he's hot on the trail. A young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service in exchange for his freedom.

Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters