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The Book That Doesn't Exist

By: Roberto Scarlato
Narrated by: Kevin Scollin
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Found inside the hidden compartment of a Studebaker, Henry Ward has just stumbled across a very interesting manuscript. Consumed by the daily grind of life, he hopes to find some inspiration. But what he finds instead will lead him into pure madness.

©2017 Roberto Scarlato (P)2017 Roberto Scarlato Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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An aspiring, hobby writer comes across an interesting, inspiring manuscript he admires and considers adopting as his own. His wife is also a writer and keen for him to read her first novel. Set in the days of typewriters and paper drafts, a misunderstanding means, when he caves to her moral pressure, he sends her manuscript to who he thought was the author. His efforts to reverse this mistake reveal the malign nature of the manuscript and the effect on people who have possessed it. It becomes difficult to disentangle fact from fiction and characters come to life, writing their own stories and demoting the author. I liked the subversive tone and the irony of me reading this book - which doesn't exist.

The narrator was a good voice actor adding emotion and mood to the text.

I received a free copy, and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Ironic meta level upon meta level.

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