Date: 1990-2010
MainCategory: CONTEMPORARY
Type: StandaloneNovel
Genre: Detective/crime/Mystery
trope: Evil cult
Lenght: short
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Reception: LIttle known
Disciple Manning is able to recall every conversation, meeting and feeling he has ever had, making him an extremely dangerous private investigator. When a young woman disappears from a religious cult, her parents turn to Manning for help. Manning accepts, but with a chilling sense of foreboding. Heading into the heart of the cult, he encounters its beguiling leader, obsessed with the idea that the world is a fantastical theatre, in which we merely act…