Alain and Nicolaou refer to the novel as an intoxicating blend of mystery, mythology, tight knit friend groups and unreliable narrators. "I think I just got off on the wrong foot with it," Alain says about his first read in 1992. The book was written by a man who wrote a hard boiled detective story called the Facebook in the year of our Lord 2005.

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