Darkly hilarious and unexpectedly profound, Citizen Vince is an irresistible tale about the price of freedom and the mystery of salvation. Eight days before the 1980 presidential election, Vince Camden wakes up at 1:59 a.m. in a quiet house in Spokane, Washington. Pocketing his stash of stolen credit cards, he drops by an all-night poker game before heading to his witness-protection job dusting crullers at Donut Make You Hungry. When a familiar face shows up in town Vince realizes that his past is closer than he'd like.

Citizen Vince was voted Best Book of 2005 by the Washington Post, was an Atlanta Journal-Constitution Favorite Book of 2005 and an NPR Fresh Air Top Ten Book of 2005. In addition, Citizen Vince was the winner of the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Edgar® Award for best novel in 2005.

Jess Walter is the author of three other novels - The Zero, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and the 2007 LA Times Book Prize and winner of the 2007 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, Land of the Blind and Over Tumbled Graves, a 2001 New York Times notable book - as well as the nonfiction book Every Knee Shall Bow (re-released as Ruby Ridge), a finalist for the PEN Center West literary nonfiction award in 1996 and made into a CBS miniseries.