Book Description

In your hands is a binder. Flip it open, and you'll find a series of documents -- emails, diary entries, business records -- cobbled together by a neurotic copyeditor named Stanley Copac. At first, it all looks like a mess, dozens of voices flitting across time, tied together only by Stanley's footnotes. There's a network of Chinese buffets hiding secret codes in their fortune cookies. A branch of the CIA devoted to "dream science," scanning the human subconscious for ultradimensional deities. Corporate double-crosses, mysterious suicides, a talking duck. This is all connected, somehow. Stanley has traveled the country in his RV, documenting all of it. He's finally found the Truth: it all revolves around the unsolved disappearance of a little girl over twenty years ago, part of a conspiracy that extends beyond the material world. But immersing himself in that conspiracy has destroyed Stanley's relationship to reality itself -- and it might destroy yours, too. With equal parts offbeat humor and paranoid conspiracy, VANISHING LINE is a literary puzzle box for readers to explore.