The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Alex
Delaware novels and the award-winning #1 international bestselling
author of The Genius combine their extraordinary talents for one of
the most unusual--and unnerving--thrillers of the year.
Detective Jacob Lev has awakened dazed and confused: it appears he
picked up a woman the night before, but can't remember anything about
it. And then suddenly, she's gone. Not long after, he's dispatched to a
murder scene in a house in the Hollywood hills. There is no body, only a
head. And seared into a kitchen counter is a message: the Hebrew word
for justice.
Lev is about to embark on an odyssey--through Los Angeles, London, and
Prague, through the labyrinthine mysteries of a grotesque ancient
legend, and most of all, through himself. All that he has believed to be
true will be upended. And not only his world, but the world itself, will
be changed.