The Puzzle Master

Informationen zum Autor Danielle Trussoni is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Ancestor, Angelology, and Angelopolis , all New York Times Notable Books, and the memoirs The Fortress and Falling Through the Earth , named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review . She writes the monthly horror column for the New York Times Book Review. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and winner of the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Fellowship, her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. Klappentext Once a promising football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury, leaving him with a mental superpower - he can solve puzzles in ways ordinary people can't. Called in to solve a puzzle created by a woman serving thirty years for murder, Brink is thrust into an ancient mystery - one with explosive consequences for the fate of humanity. Leseprobe December 24, 1909 Paris, France By the time you read this, I will have caused much sorrow, and for that I beg your forgiveness. As you know, my child, I am a haunted man, and while the toll has been steep, I have at last made peace with my demons. I do not write this as an excuse for what I have done. I know too well that there is no forgiveness for it—not in the eyes of God or man. But rather, I write this account of my discovery out of necessity. It is my last chance to record the incredible events, the terrible and wonderful events, that changed my life and will, if you venture into the mysteries I am about to relate, change yours, as well. What, you ask, is responsible for such torment? I will tell you, but take heed: Once you know the truth, it is not easily forgotten. It has haunted me every minute of every day. There was no question of ignoring it. I was drawn to its mystery like a moth circling a flame—In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni. And while I am fortunate to have survived to record the truth, even now, as I stand on the edge of the abyss, I cannot help but shrink at the thought of entrusting such a dangerous secret to you. I have suffered, but it is the suffering of a man who has created his own torture chamber. I believed I could know what shouldn’t be known. I wanted to see things, secret things, and so I lifted the veil between the human and the Divine and stared directly into the eyes of God. That is the nature of the puzzle: to offer pain and pleasure by turns. And while the truth I am about to reveal may shock you, if it offers some small refuge of hope, then this, my last communication, will achieve all it must. June 9, 2022 Ray Brook, New York Mike Brink turned down a country road, drove through a dense evergreen forest, and stopped before the high metal gate of the prison. His dog, a one-year-old dachshund called Conundrum—Connie for short—slept on the floor of the truck, camouflaged by shadows. She was so still that when the security guard stepped to Brink’s truck and peered inside, he didn’t see her at all. He merely checked Brink’s driver’s license against a list and waved him toward an imposing brick institution that seemed better suited to a horror movie than the bright June sunshine. Mike Brink had an appointment with Dr. Thessaly Moses, the head psychologist at the New York State Correctional Facility, an all-women’s minimum-security prison in the hamlet of Ray Brook, New York. She’d called him the week before and asked him to come to the prison to speak with her. One of the prisoners had drawn a perplexing puzzle, and she wanted help making sense of it. Because of his work as a puzzle constructor and his fame after Time magazine christened him the most talented puzzleist in the world, thirty-two-year-old Mike Brink was barraged with puzzles. Most of them he solved in an instant. But from Dr. Mo...

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• Autori: Danielle Trussoni
• Editore: Random House USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 13.06.2023
• EAN: 9780593729717
• ISBN: 978-0-593-72971-7
• Pagine: 384
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 233 mm x 25 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi