Why settle for nothing, when you can steal everything?
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?
Nathaniel Rich is the author of Cloudthief (July 2026) and three previous novels, all New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selections. He has also written two works of nonfiction on environmental themes: Second Nature (2021), which includes the story that serves as the basis for the film Dark Waters; and Losing Earth (2019), a winner of several national science writing awards, which has been published in twelve languages and is currently being adapted into a film by the Oscar-winning director Tom McCarthy. Rich is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a frequent contributor to Harper’s and the New York Review of Books. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in New Orleans and teaches at Tulane.
