author of The Last Flight of Poxl West - Daniel Torday
“With thin wild mercury rhythms and electrifying prose, Daniel Riley’s debut announces the arrival of a masterful novelist, giving of flashes of DeLillo, Joan Didion, Dana Spiotta, even a glint of Pynchon. Fly Me does for ‘70s L.A. What Garth Risk Hallberg did for NYC in the same period. This is one to gulp down, and then savor.”
author of Thalassa and Half World - Scott O'Connor
"Fly Me is a vivid, virtuosic novel. Daniel Riley conjures a place and time as vibrant and compelling as the embattled young woman at the heart of his story."
author of All Soul's Rising and Master of the Crossroads - Madison Smartt Bell
"Daniel Riley's Fly Me conjures back the feeling of a long-passed decade in living color, flesh and boneredolent of risk and possibility. This riveting novel is a window into a world we've forgotten we come from."
author of #1 IndieNext Pick Painted Horses - Malcolm Brooks
"Standing right on the corner of Don Winslow and Exile On Main Street, Daniel Riley conjures something remarkablean unerring fusion of contemporary white-knuckled thriller and rawly elegant period piece, set at the moment the Viet Nam-era counter-culture cracked wide enough to fly a skyjacked plane through. If scintillating writing and Hitchcockian dread weren't enough, Riley also gives us Suzy Whitman, a classical heroine thrust by history and circumstance into the dangerous territory of modern autonomy, with uncharted modern consequences. Absolutely first-rate."
author of The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering - Jeffrey Rotter
"Fly Me digs under the endless summer sand of Southern California to confirm what every young person suspects: the world is a conspiracy. I cheered as Riley's heroine Suzy broke free from the sinister forces controlling her destiny to chart her own crazy flight plan."
The Invaders - Karolina Waclawiak
"In his assured debut novel Fly Me, Daniel Riley uses crackling dialogue and meticulously drawn prose to evoke a sun-bleached 1970s tableau that hums with a raw mix of possibility and danger. The kind you'd want to escape into."
National Book Award-winning author of Perfume River - Robert Olen Butler
"Suzy Whitman, Fly Me's central figure, is one of the most compelling and beautifully realized characters I've read in many a moon. And she inhabits an erathe Seventiesthat has much to say to us in these parlous times of ours. This is a dazzling debut by an important new novelist."