Much to her shock, the story is about her and the moment they met. She's close to rock-bottom when she reads a short story by Martin Keller: a much older author she met at a literary event years ago. Her relationship is crumbling, and her career in journalism hits a low point after it's revealed that her profile of a playwright is full of inaccuracies. She soon reveals that there is something more urgent, and more dangerous, behind her silence, thrusting Brink into a hunt for the truth.įrom the publisher: Sal Cannon's life is in shambles.

What begins as a desire to crack an alluring cipher quickly morphs into an obsession with Price herself. When Price draws a perplexing puzzle, her psychiatrist believes it will explain her crime and calls Brink to solve it. But it also left him deeply isolated, unable to fully connect with other people.Įverything changes after Brink meets Jess Price, a woman serving thirty years in prison for murder who hasn't spoken a word since her arrest five years before. The injury left him with a mental superpower-he can solve puzzles in ways ordinary people can't. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: acquired savant syndrome. From the publisher: All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink-a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor-understands its patterns like no one else.

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