The Puzzle Master

Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mysteryΓÇöone with explosive consequences for the fate of humanityΓÇöin this suspenseful thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Angelology ΓÇ£This novel has it all and more. In the nimble,talented hands of Trussoni the pages fly.ΓÇ¥ΓÇö#1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington PostPopSugarBookreporterCrimeReads All the world is a puzzleand Mike BrinkΓÇöa celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructorΓÇöunderstands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football starBrink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: acquired savant syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpowerΓÇöhe can solve puzzles in ways ordinary people canΓÇÖt. But it also left him deeply isolatedunable to fully connect with other people. Everything changes after Brink meets Jess Pricea woman serving thirty years in prison for murder who hasnΓÇÖt spoken a word since her arrest five years before. When Price draws a perplexing puzzleher psychiatrist believes it will explain her crime and calls Brink to solve it. What begins as a desire to crack an alluring cipher quickly morphs into an obsession with Price herself. She soon reveals that there is something more urgentand more dangerousbehind her silencethrusting Brink into a hunt for the truth. The quest takes Brink through a series of interlocking enigmasbut the heart of the mystery is the God Puzzlea cryptic ancient prayer circle created by the thirteenth-century Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia. As Brink navigates a maze of cluesand his emotional entanglement with Price becomes more intensehe realizes that there are powerful forces at work that he cannot escape. Ranging from an upstate New York womenΓÇÖs prison to nineteenth-century Prague to the secret rooms of the Pierpont Morgan LibraryThe Puzzle Master is a tantalizingaddictive thriller in which humankindtechnologyand the future of the universe itself are at stake.