Cockpit (novel)

Cockpit is a novel by Polish-American author Jerzy Kosiński, published in 1975.

Plot

Cockpit is a debriefing after a long, tortuous mission. An agent known only as Tarden is a former operative of the mysterious security agency “the Service.” He has erased himself from all dossiers and transcripts. Now a fugitive, he moves across the landscape free of identity, in search of adventure and intrigue. But Tarden is a man of many disguises, and he is alternately avenger and savior, judge and trickster, as he enters the lives of others, forcing them into the arena of his judgment. In Cockpit, Kosinski is at his most startling and powerful, stripping away pretension and illusions of security to reveal the source of real strength within.

Reception

According to an interview with Kosiński, Cockpit was well received by British audiences,[1] and was praised for Kosiński's "quick changes of invention" in relation to Tarden's identity switching and character development.[2]

gollark: There's no actual *fun* in just waiting around because you have to.
gollark: Oh, wait, there IS a villager chunkloading bug...
gollark: More importantly, furnaces are a thing people want to have and like, and their existence adds to the game.
gollark: Also, there are no solutions for "using the items already in the game" for chunkloading.
gollark: Because furnaces are actually an interesting feature.

References
  1. George Plimpton and Rocco Landesman. "Jerzy Kosinski, The Art of Fiction No. 46". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  2. "COCKPIT". Kirkus. Retrieved 2 September 2013.


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