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“An extraordinary work of detection, suspense, and supernatural mystery. I spent three days totally lost in the world Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman have created. This is brilliant, page-turning fiction with mythic underpinnings that give it a special resonance; a rare collaboration where the sum is truly greater than the parts.” -- STEPHEN KING A burnt-out Los Angeles homicide detective…a woman of mystery who is far more than she seems…an ancient monster bent on a mission of retribution. When these three come together, a new standard of suspense is born. The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages, a creature fashioned by a 16th century rabbi to protect the Jews, and now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer. L.A. detective Jacob Lev wakes up one morning to a mystery: he seems to have picked up a beautiful woman in a bar the night before, but he can’t remember anything about it, and before he knows it, she has gone. But this mystery pales in comparison to the one he’s about to be called upon to solve. Newly re-assigned to a Special Projects department he didn’t even know existed, he’s to investigate a murder far up in the hills of Hollywood Division. There is no body. There is only a unidentified head, lying on the floor of a house. The decapitation is absolutely clean. Burnt into a kitchen counter nearby is a single word: the Hebrew for “justice.” Detective Lev is about to embark upon an odyssey – through Los Angeles, through the United States, through London and Prague, but most of all, through himself. All that he has believed to be true will be upended, and not only his world, but the world itself, will be changed. Jonathan Kellerman has long been known for his mastery of criminal psychology, and his ability to create thrilling novels of nuanced drama and suspense. But never anything as spectacular as this. Only Jonathan Kellerman could have imagined it – and only he could have realized it so brilliantly.