{"product_id":"the-puzzle-master-9780593595312","title":"The Puzzle Master","description":"\u003cb\u003eReality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery--one with explosive consequences for the fate of humanity--in this suspenseful thriller from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAngelology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This novel has it all and more. In the nimble, talented hands of Trussoni the pages fly.\"--#1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author David Baldacci\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, PopSugar, Bookreporter, CrimeReads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink--a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor--understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: acquired savant syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower--he can solve puzzles in ways ordinary people can't. But it also left him deeply isolated, unable to fully connect with other people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEverything changes after Brink meets Jess Price, a woman serving thirty years in prison for murder who hasn't spoken a word since her arrest five years before. When Price draws a perplexing puzzle, her 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 urgent, and more dangerous, behind her silence, thrusting Brink into a hunt for the truth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe quest takes Brink through a series of interlocking enigmas, but the heart of the mystery is the God Puzzle, a cryptic ancient prayer circle created by the thirteenth-century Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia. As Brink navigates a maze of clues, and his emotional entanglement with Price becomes more intense, he realizes that there are powerful forces at work that he cannot escape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRanging from an upstate New York women's prison to nineteenth-century Prague to the secret rooms of the Pierpont Morgan Library, \u003ci\u003eThe Puzzle Master\u003c\/i\u003e is a tantalizing, addictive thriller in which humankind, technology, and the future of the universe itself are at stake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDanielle Trussoni\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Ancestor, Angelology, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAngelopolis\u003c\/i\u003e, all \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Books, and the memoirs \u003ci\u003eThe Fortress \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFalling Through the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, named one of the ten best books of the year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She writes the monthly horror column for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606697283858,"sku":"9780593595312","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1c974b00-92dd-445c-ae73-5815ffa2916f.jpg?v=1732298240","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-puzzle-master-9780593595312","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}