The Secret Viking: A Detective Story

By Martin Myers

It started as simple research. It became a metafictional mystery that would leave him questioning his sanity. P. August Dallou is determined to make his mark. So when the literary scholar discovers papers citing a shadowy 1300-year-old Viking still living and writing today, he'll stop at nothing to interview the man and publish his genius. But the cunning Nordic immortal keeps cleverly switching aliases and locations, continually evading Dallou's reach and leaving the frustrated researcher wondering if it's all one big hallucination. Tracing a twisting history of letters that leads to the likes of Philip Marlowe, Franz Kafka, and Miguel de Cervantes, the dogged professor and his well-read canine close in on the elusive Norseman. But when the Quixotic quest for the furtive fugitive takes a metaphysical turn, Dallou's shock is palpable as the fiction on the page bleeds into a befuddling confusion of real-life surprises. Will the absurdly challenged intellectual's hunt for the truth take him all the way to an utterly unreal "The End"? The Secret Viking: A Detective Story is the mind-blowing first book in The Secret Viking literary satirical fiction series. If you like deep irony, poetic comedy, and fractal-like concepts, then you'll love Martin Myers's brain-bending narrative. Buy The Secret Viking to provoke preposterous perceptions today!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1699059306
• ISBN13: 9781699059302
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"