“[of all writers on El Faro] Foy does the best job. He tells the story briskly and confidently while working in helpful asides: how cargo containers are fastened to a ship deck, how forecasts are determined, how huge ships stay upright (and how they don’t). Run the Storm gracefully covers everything you’d want to know about El Faro’s sinking and the 33 lives that went with it.” Outside Magazine
[Foy's] characters are vivid and down-to-earth; his prose is both potent and elegant; and his novel, grappling as it does with the issues of addiction, self-destructive anger, overdevelopment and ecological destruction, and the smothering of small businesses by large corporations, is a multi-layered story of destruction and rebirth that fuses the personal and the political. –Booklist (starred review)
The Art and Practice of Explosion
An unusual tale, a bit reminiscent of Malcolm Lowry. Initially forbidding, ultimately very rewarding indeed.–Kirkus
The Last Harbor
Hemingway meets magical realism.—Locus
The Last Harbor is a singularly beautifully written book, one that transcends all genre boundaries; it is a serious and major piece of fiction––infinityplus.co.uk
The Shift
Grimly effective New York scenes—both old and new—blend with convincingly extrapolated virtual realities in Foy's (this is his sixth outing) tautly plotted, highly colored cyber-thriller.–Kirkus
Asia Rip
A fine, rich bouillabaisse of a book––New York Times Book Review
