A man hopelessly obsessed with finding the key to an indecipherable 700-year-old manuscript descends into a ghostly world of madness. "Wholly mesmerizing . . . A wonderfully strange and engrossing thriller." –Kirkus Reviews "Fast-paced and deeply cerebral . . . Wheeler's writing is adept and entrancing." –Independent Book Review Leonard Stavros claims to speak virtually every language on Earth. He also claims to be a former intelligence agent who specialized in cracking complex codes and ciphers. But then, Leonard is psychotic, his madness fueled by an all-consuming obsession with a 700-year-old book written in what may be the most diabolical cipher ever devised. A cipher Leonard cannot crack, and which torments him with relentless, merciless cackling. Yet even as he fights to escape the book's stranglehold, Leonard meets a beautiful young woman with her own strange fixation. A woman he feels he has met before. Perhaps, he thinks, in a dream. But a woman, nonetheless, who knows Leonard better than he knows himself—and who, it seems, may be his last hope for salvation. From the author of the award-winning The Things of Man comes a story of arrogance, loss, and a desperate struggle for redemption.
ASIN: B0CL9M7N4Y
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Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Wheeler, Vince
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Book is in very good condition. Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.