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A shocking and provocative new thriller from the author of the national
bestseller The Magician's
Tale. Kay Farrow, a color-blind photographer
who sees the world in black, white and shades of gray, probes the mysterious
death of her beloved mentor on a quest that takes her to the darkest
intersections of San Francisco's Mission District.
"Eerie as a midnight walk in the fog," said The New York
Times Book Review of David Hunt's The
Magician's Tale, "showing us light and
dark, truth and deception, reality and illusion, even good and evil,
in ways we never imagined." "Hunt mesmerizes with his sleight
of hand," praised People magazine, "The book's lingering spell
lies in the way its heroine's perspective enables us to see, as if for
the first time, her beloved city in all its chiaroscuro splendor."
When distinguished photojournalist Maddy Yamada is struck by a motorcyclist
at two in the morning in a seedy area far from her Marina apartment,
Kay Farrow's grief is tempered by suspicion, What could have drawn the
reclusive Maddy so far from home at such an hour? Kay believes Maddy's
work in progress-blurry, abstract images uncharacteristic of a woman
famous for her unsparing clarity of vision--holds elusive clues, clues
Kay is determined to decipher.
Tracing old photographs and undeveloped film discovered in one of Maddy's
cameras, Kay begins to bring into focus Maddy's activities at the time
of her death. The territory Kay must cover runs from the back alleys
of the Mission to the elite enclaves of Pacific Heights and beyond,
to a very private shooting preserve miles north of the city. Lurking
in her path is a netherworld of decadence and evil--and evidence that
Maddy's death was no accident.
Kay doggedly pursues a winding path to justice, negotiating a labyrinth
of debauchery and dark desires.
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