The Puzzle Master
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Once a promising football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury, leaving him with a mental superpower - he can solve puzzles in ways ordinary people can't. Called in to solve a puzzle created by a woman serving thirty years for murder,...
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Once a promising football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury, leaving him with a mental superpower - he can solve puzzles in ways ordinary people can't. Called in to solve a puzzle created by a woman serving thirty years for murder, Brink is thrust into an ancient mystery - one with explosive consequences for the fate of humanity.Lese-Probe zu „The Puzzle Master “
December 24, 1909Paris, France
By the time you read this, I will have caused much sorrow, and for that I beg your forgiveness. As you know, my child, I am a haunted man, and while the toll has been steep, I have at last made peace with my demons. I do not write this as an excuse for what I have done. I know too well that there is no forgiveness for it not in the eyes of God or man. But rather, I write this account of my discovery out of necessity. It is my last chance to record the incredible events, the terrible and wonderful events, that changed my life and will, if you venture into the mysteries I am about to relate, change yours, as well.
What, you ask, is responsible for such torment? I will tell you, but take heed: Once you know the truth, it is not easily forgotten. It has haunted me every minute of every day. There was no question of ignoring it. I was drawn to its mystery like a moth circling a flame In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni. And while I am fortunate to have survived to record the truth, even now, as I stand on the edge of the abyss, I cannot help but shrink at the thought of entrusting such a dangerous secret to you.
I have suffered, but it is the suffering of a man who has created his own torture chamber. I believed I could know what shouldn t be known. I wanted to see things, secret things, and so I lifted the veil between the human and the Divine and stared directly into the eyes of God. That is the nature of the puzzle: to offer pain and pleasure by turns. And while the truth I am about to reveal may shock you, if it offers some small refuge of hope, then this, my last communication, will achieve all it must.
June 9, 2022
Ray Brook, New York
Mike Brink turned down a country road, drove through a dense evergreen forest, and stopped before the high metal gate of the prison. His dog, a one-year-old dachshund called Conundrum Connie for short slept on the floor of the truck, camouflaged by shadows. She
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was so still that when the security guard stepped to Brink s truck and peered inside, he didn t see her at all. He merely checked Brink s driver s license against a list and waved him toward an imposing brick institution that seemed better suited to a horror movie than the bright June sunshine.
Mike Brink had an appointment with Dr. Thessaly Moses, the head psychologist at the New York State Correctional Facility, an all-women s minimum-security prison in the hamlet of Ray Brook, New York. She d called him the week before and asked him to come to the prison to speak with her. One of the prisoners had drawn a perplexing puzzle, and she wanted help making sense of it. Because of his work as a puzzle constructor and his fame after Time magazine christened him the most talented puzzleist in the world, thirty-two-year-old Mike Brink was barraged with puzzles. Most of them he solved in an instant. But from Dr. Moses s description, this puzzle sounded peculiar, unlike any puzzle he d seen before. When he asked her to take a photo and email it, she said she couldn t risk it. Prisoner records were confidential. I shouldn t be discussing this with you at all, she said. But this is a unique patient, one who s become rather important to me. And so, despite his deadlines and the three-hundred-mile drive, Mike Brink agreed to come upstate to see it. Puzzles were his passion, his way of making sense of the world, and this was one he couldn t resist.
The prison was ominous, with steeples and dark, narrow windows. When he d read up on its history, he found that it was built in 1903 as a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis. The clean air, high altitude, and endless forests had been an integral part of the cure. The institution s one claim to fame was its appearance in Sylvia Plath s T
Mike Brink had an appointment with Dr. Thessaly Moses, the head psychologist at the New York State Correctional Facility, an all-women s minimum-security prison in the hamlet of Ray Brook, New York. She d called him the week before and asked him to come to the prison to speak with her. One of the prisoners had drawn a perplexing puzzle, and she wanted help making sense of it. Because of his work as a puzzle constructor and his fame after Time magazine christened him the most talented puzzleist in the world, thirty-two-year-old Mike Brink was barraged with puzzles. Most of them he solved in an instant. But from Dr. Moses s description, this puzzle sounded peculiar, unlike any puzzle he d seen before. When he asked her to take a photo and email it, she said she couldn t risk it. Prisoner records were confidential. I shouldn t be discussing this with you at all, she said. But this is a unique patient, one who s become rather important to me. And so, despite his deadlines and the three-hundred-mile drive, Mike Brink agreed to come upstate to see it. Puzzles were his passion, his way of making sense of the world, and this was one he couldn t resist.
The prison was ominous, with steeples and dark, narrow windows. When he d read up on its history, he found that it was built in 1903 as a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis. The clean air, high altitude, and endless forests had been an integral part of the cure. The institution s one claim to fame was its appearance in Sylvia Plath s T
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Autoren-Porträt von Danielle Trussoni
Danielle Trussoni is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Ancestor, Angelology, and Angelopolis, all New York Times Notable Books, and the memoirs The Fortress and Falling Through the Earth, named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review. She writes the monthly horror column for the New York Times Book Review. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and winner of the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Fellowship, her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Danielle Trussoni
- 2023, Internationale Ausgabe, 384 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 15,3 x 23 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House
- ISBN-10: 0593729714
- ISBN-13: 9780593729717
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.07.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Your summer beach read is a lock. NPRThe many irresistible elements in Danielle Trussoni s The Puzzle Master include Mike Brink, a preternaturally brilliant man billed as the most talented puzzleist in the world. The New York Times
[A] marvel . . . It has been some time since I read a novel I found as compelling as this one . . . Mystery Tribune
This immersive, brilliant book is a labyrinth of ciphers, cryptograms, logic puzzles, word puzzles, and a doozy of a conspiracy. Wouldn t you like to experience a book so singular? The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Danielle Trussoni melds a heady brew of genres mystery, horror, supernatural, magical realism, ancient history, mysticism and plain old puzzles. . . . Oline H. Cogdill, The Sun Sentinel
Utterly absorbing . . . The master of the title isn t the only master here. The word applies equally to the author of this fabulous novel. Justin Cronin, author of The Passage Trilogy
My kind of thriller. Steve Berry, author of The Last Kingdom
The Puzzle Master is a riveting, beautifully layered, fast-paced page-turner. You ll want to clear your calendar for this one. Janelle Brown, author of Pretty Things
An absolute gem of suspense, with a wholly original and unforgettable protagonist, a propulsive plot with diabolic twists, and pure reading pleasure on every page. I loved it. Chris Pavone, author of Two Nights in Lisbon
The Puzzle Master is an ingenious literary thriller that combines everything I want in a book: an absolutely blistering Russian nesting doll of fascinating stories that dismantle some of the most deeply engrained ideas about good, evil, and the origins of humankind. In short: The Puzzle Master = (The Da Vinci Code + The Silent Patient + sprinkle of Stephen King) × gorgeous writing. Angie Kim, author of Miracle Creek
Addictive and effervescent . . . A tantalizing and delightful read that
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engages both heart and mind. Jean Kwok, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee
I am normally a jaded reader, but I could not put down this book. . . . Highly, highly recommended. Douglas Preston, co-author of Bloodless and The Cabinet of Curiosities
A thrill ride through space and time. This novel is so original that I was happy to be taken wherever it led me! Lisa Scottoline, author of What Happened to the Bennetts
A surefire hit . . . [The Puzzle Master] is an ambitious story, expertly told. . . . A sequel, The Puzzle Box, is in the works, and it can t come soon enough. Booklist
This page-turner incorporates motifs of religion, security, meaningfulness, and loss into a mystical narrative that traverses different centuries focused on the same puzzle quest. Library Journal
Intriguing . . . Several subplots involve horror, mysticism, religious fantasy and, perhaps most importantly, dolls. Bookreporter
[Trussoni] is at the top of her game . . . The Kabbalah meets the New York Times crossword in a brainy thriller. Kirkus Reviews
I am normally a jaded reader, but I could not put down this book. . . . Highly, highly recommended. Douglas Preston, co-author of Bloodless and The Cabinet of Curiosities
A thrill ride through space and time. This novel is so original that I was happy to be taken wherever it led me! Lisa Scottoline, author of What Happened to the Bennetts
A surefire hit . . . [The Puzzle Master] is an ambitious story, expertly told. . . . A sequel, The Puzzle Box, is in the works, and it can t come soon enough. Booklist
This page-turner incorporates motifs of religion, security, meaningfulness, and loss into a mystical narrative that traverses different centuries focused on the same puzzle quest. Library Journal
Intriguing . . . Several subplots involve horror, mysticism, religious fantasy and, perhaps most importantly, dolls. Bookreporter
[Trussoni] is at the top of her game . . . The Kabbalah meets the New York Times crossword in a brainy thriller. Kirkus Reviews
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