A Strange Habit of Mind, Andrew Klavan
A Strange Habit of Mind, Andrew Klavan
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A Strange Habit of Mind

Author: Andrew Klavan

Narrator: Adam Barr

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2022


Synopsis

The founder of Byrner, a global social media platform, Gerald Byrne is 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.

Author Bio

Andrew Klavan is the author of such internationally bestselling crime novels as True Crime, filmed by Clint Eastwood, Don't Say A Word, filmed starring Michael Douglas, Empire of Lies, and Werewolf Cop. He has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award five times and has won twice. He wrote the screenplays to A Shock to The System, which starred Michael Caine, One Missed Call, which starred Edward Burns, and Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer, starring Dean Cain. His political satire videos have been viewed by tens of millions of people, and he currently does a popular podcast The Andrew Klavan Show at the Daily Wire. He is also the author of a memoir about his religious journey The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ. His fantasy-suspense trilogy Another Kingdom was among the top 100 podcasts.

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