Improbable: A Novel - Brossura

Fawer, Adam

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ISBN 10: 006073678X ISBN 13: 9780060736781

Casa editrice: Harper Torch, 2006

Riassunto

Working underground poker clubs, epileptic gambler David Caine suffers his worst seizure after a costly miscalculation and agrees to test an experimental medication, but when he begins to experience bizarre visions, he embarks on a dangerous quest for survival alongside a rogue woman CIA assassin. A first novel. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Adam Fawer holds undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. During his corporate career, Fawer worked for a variety of companies including Sony Music, J.P. Morgan, and most recently, About.com, where he was the chief operating officer. Improbable, his first novel, has already been translated into five languages. Fawer lives in New York with his partner, Meredith, and far too many pet fish.

Product Description:

From a brilliant new talent comes a riveting novel of chance, fate, and numbers, and one man's strange journey past the boundaries of the possible.David Caine inhabits a world of obsession, rich rewards, and rapid, destructive downfalls. A compulsive gambler and brilliant mathematician prone to crippling epileptic seizures, he possesses the uncanny ability to calculate odds of any hand in the blink of an eye. But one night at an underground poker club, Caine makes a costly mi scalculation, sending his life spinning out of control. Desperate, he agrees to test an experimental drug with unnerving side effects: inexplicable visions of the past, present, and future. Unsure whether he's perceiving an alternate reality or suffering a psychotic breakdown, Caine embarks on a journey that stretches beyond the possible into the world of the improbable. Gradually, he discovers the extent of his astonishing new ability -- but powerful, shadowy forces know Caine's secret. Now Caine must fight for his survival -- and his sanity . . .

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• Editore: Harper Torch
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 006073678X
• ISBN 13: 9780060736781
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 447