The Puzzle Master

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Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery with explosive consequences for humanity. Mike Brink, a celebrated puzzle constructor, understands the world's patterns like no one else. A traumatic brain injury transformed him into a savant, granting him the ability to solve puzzles in extraordinary ways but leaving him isolated from others. His life changes when he meets Jess Price, a woman serving thirty years for murder who hasn't spoken since her arrest five years prior. When Price draws a perplexing puzzle, her psychiatrist believes it may explain her crime and calls Brink to solve it. What starts as a quest to decipher an alluring cipher quickly becomes an obsession with Price. She reveals that her silence hides something more urgent and dangerous, drawing Brink into a hunt for the truth. As Brink navigates a series of interlocking enigmas, he discovers the heart of the mystery lies in the God Puzzle, an ancient prayer circle created by the thirteenth-century mystic Abraham Abulafia. His emotional entanglement with Price deepens, and he realizes powerful forces are at play. Spanning locations from a New York women’s prison to nineteenth-century Prague and the Pierpont Morgan Library, this addictive thriller intertwines humankind, technology, and the fate of the universe itself.