The Stavros Manuscript

<p><strong>A man hopelessly obsessed with finding the key to an indecipherable 700-year-old manuscript descends into a ghostly world of madness.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Wholly mesmerizing . . . A wonderfully strange and engrossing thriller.-<strong>Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p> </p><p>Fast-paced and deeply cerebral . . . Wheeler's writing is adept and entrancing.-<strong>Independent Book Review</strong></p><p> </p><p>Leonard Stavros claims to speak virtually every language on Earth. He also claims to be a former intelligence agent who specialized in cracking complex codes and ciphers. But then Leonard is psychotic his madness fueled by an all-consuming obsession with a 700-year-old book written in what may be the most diabolical cipher ever devised. A cipher Leonard cannot crack and which torments him with relentless merciless cackling.</p><p> </p><p>Yet even as he fights to escape the book's stranglehold Leonard meets a beautiful young woman with her own strange fixation. A woman he feels he has met before. Perhaps he thinks in a dream. But a woman nonetheless who knows Leonard better than he knows himself-and who it seems may be his last hope for salvation. </p><p> </p><p>From the award-winning author of <em>The Things of Man</em> comes a story of arrogance loss and a desperate struggle for redemption.</p>