This novel is told in three connected parts, each gesturing toward a type of genre fiction: the gothic horror, the detective novel, and the apocalyptic. A neuroscientist retreats to a secluded cabin in the woods, intending to blow the whistle on a pharmaceutical company. A failed poet is lured to Rome as a "literary detective" to decode the work of a mysterious Internet poet who seems to write about murders with precise knowledge. A virologist discovers her identity has been stolen by a conceptual artist in whose work someone always goes missing.
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