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Spiegel & Grau
May 2013
On Sale: May 7, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 0385531117
EAN: 9780385531115
Kindle: B00A5MRG7S
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Suspense Arcane
A baby is born with a coin in her hand. An orphan crafts
a mysterious wooden object. The CEO of a large corporation
finds himself under extraordinary pressure at work and at
home. And on a remote hilltop on a Caribbean island, a
medicine man seems to understand the meaning of all these
events and to hold the key to the future. Montaro Caine, CEO of the Fitzer Corporation, is losing
control of the company he built just as his teenage daughter
is experiencing her own difficulties. At this moment of
crisis, a man and woman appear at his office with a coin of
unknown provenance, composed of a metal unknown on Earth.
Montaro immediately recognizes it as the companion of a coin
he analyzed as a graduate student working in a lab at MIT,
which was later returned to its unidentified owner. The
coin’s appearance draws the attention of scientists,
collectors, financiers, and thieves, all of whom vie to get
their hands on it, and Montaro himself hopes that the
discovery of the coin will save his company. But the value
of the coin lies not in its monetary worth but in its hold
on the people who come into contact with it. These include
the young woman who is not aware of the object that was
found in her hand at birth; an old man who, as a boy,
crafted a wooden compact as a gift for a young Montaro
Caine; and the elusive healer Matthew Perch, who, from his
hut on a small Caribbean island, knows precisely why these
people have been brought together and what wisdom the coin
imparts. In his first novel, the beloved actor and director Sidney
Poitier takes us on a wild and unexpected adventure—from New
York to Europe to the Caribbean and beyond. The novel offers
Poitier’s heartfelt message about the potential each of us
has within ourselves, and about being open to the
possibility that there are mysteries in the universe, and
here on Earth, far greater than we can imagine. An
enthralling journey into the magic of existence, Montaro
Caine is a radiant debut from an American legend.
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