A Strange Habit of Mind by Andrew Klavan
USA Today bestseller
English professor and ex-spy Cameron Winter confronts a Big Tech billionaire to solve the suspicious suicide of a former student.
The world of Big Tech is full of eccentric characters, but shamanic billionaire Gerald Byrne may be the strangest of the bunch. The founder of Byrner, a global social media platform, Byrne is known for speaking with vague profundity and for dabbling in esoteric spiritual practices; he wears his hair in a long black ponytail to reveal a large flower tattooed on his neck; he's universally admired as a visionary, a philanthropist, and a devoted husband and father. And every person who gets in the way of his good work seems to die.
When a former student commits suicide, English professor and ex-spy Cameron Winter takes it upon himself to understand why. The young man was expelled from the university in an unfortunate episode that left Winter sympathetic to his plight; after a prolonged silence, he reached out to his teacher with two words just before taking the fatal plunge from the roof of his San Francisco apartment: "Help me."
Winter has what he calls "a strange habit of mind"--the ability to imagine himself into a crime scene, to reconstruct it mentally and play through various possible causes and outcomes to understand exactly what took place. When he applies this exercise to Adam Kemp's desperate final moments, he discovers a troubling inconsistency. And when he learns that Kemp was in a tumultuous relationship with Gerald Byrne's niece, he begins to suspect that the suicide was the result of a carefully-engineered plot, put in motion by the powerful businessman.
Featuring the tough-but-learned protagonist from 2021's When Christmas Comes, A Strange Habit of Mind is a thrilling mystery set in the cutthroat world of tech money and tech influence, where unchecked fortunes produce unstoppable power for a lawless few.
Klavan, Andrew: - Edgar Award-winning, and New York Times Best Selling, author Andrew Klavan is the author of 25 novels, including such bestsellers as Empire of Lies, Killer in the Wind, and True Crime, adapted into a film by Clint Eastwood, and Don't Say a Word, adapted into a film starring Michael Douglas. His most recent works include Nightmare City, and Killer in the Wind, which was recently named one of Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2013. His novels have been nominated for the Edgar Award five times, winning the award three times. In addition to his thrillers, Andrew has also written a The Homelanders series of books for young adults, as well as Klavan is a contributing editor to City Journal and his essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, among other places, and maintains a popular blog at PJ Media. He lives in Southern California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781613164679 |
| ISBN 10 | 161316467X |
| Title | A Strange Habit of Mind |
| Author | Andrew Klavan |
| Series | Cameron Winter Mysteries |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penzler Publishers |
| Year published | 2023-11-10 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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