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Also by Doug Dorst:

S., November 2013
Hardcover
The Surf Guru, August 2011
Paperback
Alive In Necropolis, June 2009
Paperback (reprint)

Also by J.J. Abrams:

S., November 2013
Hardcover

S.
By: Doug Dorst, J.J. Abrams

Mulholland Books
November 2013
On Sale: October 29, 2013
Featuring: Eric; Jennifer
ISBN: 0316201642
EAN: 9780316201643
Hardcover
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Mystery | Suspense | Thriller

One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.

A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown.

The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.

The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him.

The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears.

S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don’t understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst’s love letter to the written word.

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