The House of Rumour: A Novel

By Jake Arnott

Blending the invented and the genuine, The apartment of Rumour explores WWII secret agent intrigue (featuring Ian Fleming), occultism (Aleister Crowley), the West Coast science-fiction set (Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and Philip ok. Dick all appear), and the recent wave track scene of the ’80s. The decades-spanning, labyrinthine plot even weaves within the Jonestown bloodbath and Rudolf Hess, alien craft sightings and B-movies. advised via a number of narrators, what firstly seems to be a constellation of random occasions starts off to cohere because the paintings of a shadow organization—or is it simply twist of fate?

Tying the strands jointly is Larry Zagorski, an early pulp fiction author grew to become U.S. fighter pilot grew to become “American gnostic,” who seems to be again on his lengthy and eventful existence, looking for connections among the likely disparate elements. The teeming community of interlaced secrets and techniques he uncovers has own relevance—as it mirrors a e-book of twenty-two interconnected tales he as soon as wrote, encouraged via the main arcana playing cards within the tarot.

Hailed as an inheritor to Don DeLillo’s Underworld by means of The Guardian, The condominium of Rumour is a travel de strength that sweeps the reader via a century’s worthy of mystery histories.

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