The Puzzle Master A Novel

Mike Brink, a celebrated puzzle constructor who gained acquired savant syndrome after a traumatic brain injury, is drawn into a complex mystery when he is asked to solve a perplexing cipher. The cipher was drawn by Jess Price, a woman convicted of murder who has not spoken a word in the five years she has been in prison. Brink's obsession with solving the alluring cipher and with Price herself thrusts him into a search for the truth, navigating a maze of clues. The core of the enigma is the "God Puzzle," a cryptic ancient prayer circle created by the thirteenth-century Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia. This tantalizing thriller ranges from a New York State women's prison to nineteenth-century Prague, where the fate of humankind, technology, and the universe is at stake.

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