Discover why The Permanent Assurance is capturing attention.

Readers and critics alike are praising The Permanent Assurance for its bold storytelling, complex characters, and timely themes.

“A fierce critique of how supposedly respectable institutions crush their own employees into compliance and complicity, even when careers, economies, and innocent life hangs in the balance.”

“A gripping and unsettling look at power and corruption.”

“Carrington’s subplots weave together to form an intricate, but deadly slipknot. He presents a snapshot of New York as a commercialized, gentrified purgatory courtesy of “pro-business” elected officials like Mayor John Flowers, a sinister buffoon set to become the next US president. The connections between the mayor and their Wall Street sponsors (men like Edward Rooney) become increasingly clear, as does their shared culpability for attempting to stamp America’s brand on the Middle East until the region bleeds red, white, and blue.”
“A political allegory wrapped in a thriller filled with emotional sincerity and injected with a dose of postmodern metafictional absurdity. Fiction is truer than fact. That’s axiomatic, and in The Permanent Assurance we have a prime example of that adage, as told in David Carrington’s inimitable voice, with his musician’s ear for dialect and syntax…. In style and substance, this work is reminiscent of Graham Greene, Christopher Hitchens, and William Burroughs, as well as David Foster Wallace and George Saunders."

His novel will challenge readers to confront disturbing insights.… and it will keep them thinking long after the final haunting passages.

"UNSETTLING & BRILLIANT"