Last Days

I'm not even sure how to start a review of this book. It is a mystery, ostensibly, but it so much deeper than a whodunit. A story about a the missing or perhaps killed leader of a deeply strange organization, a cult really, whose members believe that the removal of parts of their bodies brings them closer to divinity. And because the investigator—now private, after retiring on disability—happens to be missing a limb of his own, he is the only person the organization trusts to uncover the truth. Or do they?

Written as two separate shorter works and subsequently fused together into one novel, this is a fearsome and bold story, one of surgical-precise writing and highly efficient prose, written by a Paul, with a Paul as the central character, and the suspects, Paul, Paul, and Paul, are no more and no less twisted than Paul, who kills Paul, and used Paul to cover up for Paul when Paul found out that it was Paul all along.