Our protagonist is a former green beret and elite athlete who
cannot quite outdistance himself from his past. With his malignant sense
of hypochondria piling up alongside his cosmic doubts, Joel Gasteneau finally
decides to undertake the quest he promised himself as a child: to find
testimonial evidence of the omnipotent creator’s hand at work in the physical
world.
But a strange turn of events impedes him in his quest, when he's
involved in a car accident from which he walks away, ostensibly unscathed, but
then falls ill in a motel room. Within his feverish head, he scours the details
of his life that have shaped his identity -- and discovers a memory that will
change his life forever.
A stunning and challenging piece of work from Ray Harvey, which
stemmed from his first literary crime novel More and More unto the Perfect day,
Pale Criminal was rewritten to combine the descriptive prowess of Nabokov, as
well as the philosophical complexity of Dostoevsky. Be prepared to take a
journey that swallows the reader up in its inquiry of godless morality and
human virtue.
Respectfully recognized as a reader's book, the Pale Criminal will provide an
exhilarating experience and never fail to astound people, as the author has
made a unique and brilliant novel that imparts the varying shades of human
condition.
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