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Kevin Guilfoile's riveting follow-up to Cast of Shadows (spellbinding--Chicago Tribune;
a masterpiece of intelligent plotting--Salon) centers on an extraordinary young woman's
race to find her father's killer and to free herself from the cross fire of a centuries-
old civil war in which she has unknowingly become ensnared.
In 530 B.C., a mysterious ship appeared off the rainy shores of Croton, in what is now
Italy. After three days the skies finally cleared and a man disembarked to address the
curious and frightened crowd that had gathered along the wet sands. He called himself
Pythagoras. Exactly what he said that day is unknown, but a thousand men and women
abandoned their lives and families to follow him. They became a community. A school.
A cult dedicated to the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Although
Pythagoras would die years later, following a bloody purge, his disciples would
influence Western philosophy, science, and mathematics for all time.
Chicago, the present day. Canada Gold, a girl both gifted and burdened by uncanny
mental abilities, is putting her skills to questionable use in the casinos and
courthouses of Las Vegas when she finds herself drawn back to the city in which her
father, the renowned composer Solomon Gold, was killed while composing his magnum opus.
Beautiful, brilliant, troubled, Canada has never heard of the Thousand, a clandestine
group of powerful individuals safeguarding and exploiting the secret teachings of
Pythagoras. But as she struggles to understand her father's unsolved murder, she finds
herself caught in the violence erupting between members of the fractured ancient cult
while she is relentlessly pursued by those who want to use her, those who want to kill
her, and the one person who wants to save her.
In an irresistibly ambitious novel that fuses historical fact with contemporary suspense,
Kevin Guilfoile delivers an erudite, propulsively entertaining thriller that seamlessly
traverses the realms of math, science, music, and philosophy. The Thousand is ringing
confirmation of Guilfoile's enormous talent.
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