Leviathan

<i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Paul Auster (<i>The New York Trilogy</i>) opens <i>Leviathan</i> with the tearing of a bomb explosion and the death of one Benjamin Sachs. Ben's one-time best friend, Peter Aaron, begins to retrospectively investigate the transformation that led Ben from his enviable, stable life to one of a recluse. Both were once intelligent, yet struggling novelists until Ben's near-death experience falling from a fire escape triggers a tumble in which he becomes withdrawn and disturbed, living alone and building bombs in a far-off cabin. That is, until he mysteriously disappears, leaving behind only a manuscript titled <i>Leviathan</i>, pages rustling in the wind.