'_Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . . ._' The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story, an intricate, subtle and gripping investigation of another man's life in all its richness and complexity. Combining an investigation of freedom and terrorism with all the tension, mystery and allusive richness familiar from Auster's _The New York Trilogy _or _Sunset Park_, _Leviathan _is an unmissable addition to the canon of 'one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.' (_Times Literary Supplement_) '[A] Brownian motion experiment of a plot - chock-a-block with identity-swaps, sideways sweeps and lateral leaps.' _Observer_