From the master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making—a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy.

Maur’s life has been shaped by an unbearable loss. But in the aftermath of what is an apparently ordinary tragedy, deeper, stranger questions arise. Their answers may lie within the dark heart and darker history of an old soldier who shares Maur’s obsessions and is violently pursued by the same unknown, unquiet forces.

So begins *The Rouse*, a sprawling saga of the bloody twentieth century, and the intimate story of two lives, their loves, regrets, and secrets—and a terrifying journey into infinite mystery.