Andrew Klavan - A Strange Habit of Mind

Hardcover & Paperback October 25, 2022 Publication Date (Available in hardcover & paperback;use drop-down menu to choose.) English professor and ex-spy Cameron Winter confronts a Big Tech billionaire to solve the suspicious suicide of a former student. The world of Big Tech is full of eccentric characters, but shamanic billionaire Gerald Byrne may be the strangest of the bunch. The founder of Byrner, a global social media platform, Byrne is known for speaking with vague profundity and for dabbling in esoteric spiritual practices; he wears his hair in a long black ponytail to reveal a large flower tattooed on his neck; he’s universally admired as a visionary, a philanthropist, and a devoted husband and father. And every person who gets in the way of his good work seems to die. When a former student commits suicide, English professor and ex-spy Cameron Winter takes it upon himself to understand why. The young man was expelled from the university in an unfortunate episode that lef