After the suicide of his mother, Christopher Hitchcock begins a paranoid supernatural journey, uncertain not only of his own sanity, but the very nature of reality.Christopher, a middle-aged man living outside of Washington, D.C., is recovering from the shock of Helen Hitchcock's unexpected death. Assertive and principled, the heavy-drinking, English-born writer enjoys a reputation of erudition. But when a hooded man attacks him the night of Helen's funeral, his skeptical and independent nature quickly clashes with the dangerous clues he discovers.With the help of his fierce but forgiving wife, Penelope, and his frustrating brother, Peter, the search for answers grows ever more complicated as increasingly inexplicable events come to pass. The men stalking him quickly prove to be more than they seem and everything he thinks he knows about the world must be questioned. Will answers provide hope or horror? Will he follow his destiny? Should he? Will he escape from the madness--the path of a renegade prophet?
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