Book excerpt: When Peter Simons, an artist from Colorado, goes missing in Utah's Canyon Country, Malcolm Brautigan and Eliza Santos set out to find him. In the process, they unearth a tangled scheme by oligarchs to destroy public land. To stop them, and maybe even save the planet, they must unlock a secret that a long-dead uranium tycoon took with him to the grave. A thrilling, suspenseful, humorous, and sometimes scathing meditation on place, memory, marriage, and disinformation in the Anthropocene.