The Dismantling, Brian DeLeeuw
The Dismantling, Brian DeLeeuw
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The Dismantling

Author: Brian DeLeeuw

Narrator: Robbie Daymond

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/28/2015


Synopsis

How much of yourself are you willing to sell?

At twenty-five, Simon Worth is a med school dropout, facing the grim reality of failure and massive student loans. Left with few options, he becomes an organ broker for a black-market organization, matching cash-strapped donors with recipients whose time on the transplant list is running out.
Tasked with finding a donor for Lenny Pellegrini, a severely depressed ex-NFL player who’s been drinking himself to death, Simon’s luck appears to change when he’s contacted by Maria Campos, a young woman desperate for cash whose liver happens to be the perfect match.

The transplant goes according to plan . . . until soon afterward, when Maria disappears and Lenny makes a cruel and destructive decision. As Simon’s world becomes increasingly dangerous, he learns of an unspeakable secret from Maria’s past and must decide, against his better moral judgment, that the only way he’ll survive is to trust her.

Chilling and fast-paced, The Dismantling questions the meaning of atonement and asks how you can reconcile the person you once were—and the person you want to be—with the person you are today.

About The Author

Brian DeLeeuw is a novelist and screenwriter living in Los Angeles. He is the author of the novels The Dismantling and In This Way I Was Saved, which was long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize, as well as the independent horror film Some Kind of Hate. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received his MFA in Fiction from The New School.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Diane on May 18, 2015

Brian DeLeeuw's novel The Dismantling has some topical elements in its plot- injuries suffered by NFL players, the lack of available organs for those needing a transplant- and combines them with a young man trying to come to terms with the loss of his younger sister years ago and a woman with a myst......more

Goodreads review by Sandy S on April 27, 2015

4 stars-- About the book: Release Date April 28, 2015 Twenty-five-year-old med school dropout Simon Worth is an organ broker, buying kidneys and livers from cash-strapped donors and selling them to recipients whose time on the waitlist is running out. When a seemingly straightforward liver transplant......more

Goodreads review by Lori L on May 29, 2015

The Dismantling by Brian DeLeeuw is a highly recommended suspense novel that explores the morality of several issues, including organ trafficking. Simon Worth has dropped out of medical school and found himself an ethically questionable position with Health Solutions, an organ brokerage company run b......more

Goodreads review by Riandi on January 19, 2020

The book had a very dreary atmosphere throughout with strong themes of repentance and choosing your path between shelfish evils and beter lives. Most scenes in the book are sketched as grimmy, filthy and litter strewn with bad weather prevailing. Not a feel-good book; not even at the end of the nove......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on May 08, 2021

I really enjoyed the book, but the end felt rushed and the logic behind Maria and Simon murdering DaSilva felt faulty. Yeah, if anyone would want to get rid of Simon, it would be DaSilva, but I really don't think it was to the point of murder. I think DaSilva really was just trying to get Simon to a......more


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Praise for The Dismantling:
"With its high tension plot and atmosphere of unease, The Dismantling is a morally ambiguous thriller in the grand tradition of Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith. It has smart things to say about memory, redemption, and what it's like to live in a world where everything is for sale, but it says them by telling a gripping story." —Christopher Beha, author of Arts & Entertainments

"While this is a fast-paced, engaging thriller, it is also much, much more. It is, at its heart, a fully and tenderly rendered exploration of loss and shame and the deep yearning for some manner of redemption. It is about the difficult choices put before us—and that might very well damn us—when possible redemption is close at hand." —Thomas O’Malley, author of This Magnificent DesolationPraise for Brian DeLeeuw’s In this Way I Was Saved:“Elegant, unsettling and wildly original, In This Way I Was Saved reads like a coming-of-age-story with the heart of a nasty thriller." —Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Gone Girl“Terrifying and terrifyingly good.” —Vanity Fair“Haunting and persuasive.” —Los Angeles Times“Spellbinding.” —Publishers Weekly
 “Original, subversive, funny, twisted, and totally engrossing, In This Way I Was Saved is a mind-bending tour de force. I read the last page, flipped back to the beginning, and immediately started again.” —Chelsea Cain, New York Times–bestselling author of Heartsick and SweetheartIn This Way I Was Saved gave me chills, not only for its dead-on depiction of the searing loneliness of a hermetically sealed mind, but because it is so thrillingly well-executed. A superb first novel” —Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner award-winning author of The Great Man and Blue Plate Special“[W]ill keep you guessing right until the book reaches its inevitable conclusion. I haven't been this entertained by a debut novel in years.” —Dale Peck, author of Drift HouseIn this Way I Was Saved is a frightening, gripping tale about a sadistic secret sharer, a shadow self who is ready to devour its host. This is one of the most fascinating and controlled first novels I’ve ever read—a sustained performance that hypnotizes and terrifies the reader.” —Edmund White, author of A Boy’s Own Story“In this original, inventive debut, Brian DeLeeuw delivers a suspenseful and surprisingly tender psychological thriller that gives shape to the torment of isolation.” —Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life“A story of friendship and betrayal, violence, madness, lust, and power that will keep you guessing until the very last page—and leave you gasping for air.” —BookPage“Riveting ... suspenseful and terrifying.” —Library Journal“Mysterious, psychologically, craggy, and highly readable.” —Time Out New York“Creepily compelling.” —Daily Mail (UK)“DeLeeuw's precise, vivid prose has that visceral power of both a successful psychological thriller and a gripping ghost story.” —The Daily Telegraph (UK)