The Golem of Paris

Zusatztext “ The Golem of Hollywood transcends genre. It’s a whole that exceeds the sum of its very considerable parts! creative and otherwise . . . a story so wonderfully told that your bookshelf must have it.” —Bookreporter.com   “One of the craziest! wildest! and most compelling works of popular fiction in years.” — Commentary   “A witty! propulsive! and frequently chilling read . . . as ambitious as it is entertaining.” — Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Kellerman is one of the world’s most popular authors! with more than three dozen New York Times –bestselling crime novels! most recently Motive and The Murderer’s Daughter . He has won the Goldwyn! Edgar! and Anthony Awards! and has been nominated for the Shamus Award. Jonathan and his wife! bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman! live in California! New Mexico! and New York.   Jesse Kellerman won the Princess Grace Award for best young American playwright and is the author of Sunstroke ! Trouble ! The Genius (for which he won the 2010 Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle)! The Executor ! and Potboiler (for which he was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel). He lives in California. Chapter One.   Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital Prague, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic December 17, 1982   “The patient will wake up.”             The Russian’s voice is soft and careful, handling the words in Czech like an unfamiliar weapon.             She has taught herself deafness. How else to sleep in this deranged place, its nights clotted with moans and prayers to a God that does not exist, cannot exist, for the State has declared him dead. The State is correct. Proof of God’s death is all around her.             Senseless, trying to hide. She cowers just the same as the Russian kneels to unlock her cage, his greatcoat opening like a pair of dark wings. The cell door stands ajar, admitting a sickly fan of light from the grease-smeared bulb that smolders in the corridor. “The patient will stand, please.” She will be punished. Her cellmates want none of it. Fat Irena pretends to snore, blowing white balloons. Olga’s fingers are knotted in the hollow of her belly.             The fourth bed is empty. “Little bird,” the Russian says. “Do not make me ask again.” She swings her feet to the freezing concrete, finds her paper slippers. They step into the low, broad passageway known as Bulvár šílenci. Lunatics’ Boulevard. While the Russian finds the correct key, she assumes the mandatory posture, kneeling with forehead to the linoleum. Along the corridor, a feverish racket is stirring. The other inmates have heard jangling. They want to know. Who is leaving? Why? “The patient may stand.” She rises, using the wall for support. He leads her down the Boulevard, past the staff room, where orderlies doze in armchairs under heavy doses of self-prescribed sedatives. Past physicians’ offices, exam rooms, Hydrotherapy and Electroshock and rooms unmarked except for numbers. Rooms that cannot be labeled truthfully. The women’s ward ends at two consecutive locked doors, gray paint peeling to reveal steel the same color. Where is he taking her? Syringes crunch beneath his boot-heels in the dank stairwell, the temperature dropping with every step. Upon reaching the ground floor, the Russian pauses to remove his greatcoat and drape it over her shoulders. The hem puddles. He places his ushanka on her head, ties the flaps under her chin. “I would give you my shoes,” he says, tugging off his gloves, “but I must drive.” He pauses, frowns at her. “Are you all right, little bird? You look unwell.” Bare fingers brush her cheek. The...

Product details

• Authors: Jesse Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, Jonathan/ Kellerman Kellerman
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.11.2015, delayed
• EAN: 9780399171734
• ISBN: 978-0-399-17173-4
• No. of pages: 512
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy