The Rouse

"Maur's life has been shaped by loss: an apparently ordinary tragedy. But in its aftermath arise deeper, stranger questions. . . . Their answers may lie within the dark heart and darker history of an old soldier who shares Maur's obsessions-and is violently pursued by the same unknown, unquiet forces. So begins a book unlike any other: at once an encyclopaedic and multitudinous saga of a bloody ce