S. Michael Russel and the Dalmatians have such

and the Dalmatians have such beautiful coats

to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves

This is the world Erast Fandorin - the celebrated detective - wakes up to after three years in a coma

and beyond

S. Michael Russel and the Dalmatians have suchOne book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace and desire. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. THE BOOK: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer