Putnam
September 2014
On Sale: September 16, 2014
Featuring: Detective Jacob Lev
552 pages ISBN: 0399162364 EAN: 9780399162367 Kindle: B00KRPQ2L4 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
A burned-out L.A. detective . . . a woman of mystery who is far more than she seems . . . a grotesque, ancient monster bent on a mission of retribution. When these three collide, a new standard of suspense is born.
The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages, a creature fashioned by a sixteenth-century rabbi to protect his congregation, now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer.
Detective Jacob Lev wakes one morning, dazed and confused: He seems to have picked up a beautiful woman in a bar the night before, but he canβt remember anything about the encounter, and before he knows it, she has gone. But this mystery pales in comparison to the one heβs about to be called on to solve. Newly reassigned to a Special Projects squad he didnβt even know existed, heβs sent to a murder scene far up in the hills of Hollywood Division. There is no body, only an unidentified head lying on the floor of a house. Seared into a kitchen counter nearby is a single word: the Hebrew for justice.
Detective Lev is about to embark on an odysseyβthrough Los Angeles, through many parts of the United States, through London and Prague, but most of all, through himself. All that he has believed to be true will be upendedβand not only his world, but the world itself, will be changed.
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