The Mental Marvel

<p>Roger Thule was a prodigy born old-a lightning calculator and walking encyclopedia whose brilliance has hollowed out his appetite for life. When his celebrated father is found shot dead and a woman's scented handkerchief is the only clue Roger is pulled from the brink by an unlikely vow: he will prove he can be as human as he is brilliant. He will win love-and he will unmask a killer.</p><p>Torn between cold reason and raw feeling Roger crosses from study to ring. Under the tutelage of a hard-bitten trainer and the scheming guidance of Dr. Tom Marvin he learns to move like a boxer and think like a hunter. Eloise Lane the beautiful actress at the center of the mystery refuses his easy certainties and forces him to confront the one thing he never studied: the heart. Meanwhile a city of gamblers brokers and hired guns closes in and the fight for a title becomes a fight for life.</p><p>Equal parts pulp mystery courtroom drama and prize-ring spectacle <em>The Mental Marvel</em> is a ferocious romantic thriller about genius and guilt science and savagery-and a young man who must choose which will define him.</p><p></p>