"It is to me that we owe our immortality, and this is the story that proves it beyond all doubt." With this sentence Ren Belletto begins a novel that compresses every genre he has worked in--thriller, science fiction, experimental literature, horror--into one breathless narrative in which what is at stake is nothing less than our own immortality.
Playing with the expectations of the reader, Belletto constructs a logical puzzle that defies logic,...