Leviathan

`Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . . .` The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster`s remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs`s oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron`s story, an intricate, subtle and gripping investigation of another man`s life in all its richness and complexity. Combining an investigation of freedom and terrorism with all the tension, mystery and allusive richness familiar from Auster`s The New York Trilogy or Sunset Park, Leviathan is an unmissable addition to the canon of `one of America`s most spectacularly inventive writers.` (Times Literary Supplement)