Cambridge linguist Edvard Tøssentern, presumed dead, reappears after a balloon crash. When he staggers in from a remote swamp, gravely ill and swollen beyond recognition, his colleagues at the research station are overjoyed. But Edvard’s discovery about a rare giant bird throws them all into the path of an international crime ring. [Publisher's blurb]
Epigraph:
My son.
God created Man, I say. For Why would Man, who is rational, create the God who has power over him, demanding obeisance as I do?
O Lord.
Man is more deceiving than rational, I say. Man created God not to have power over him, but to have power over others.
Leonardo de Boccardo
Conversaziones e Silenzio
