The Short Version: Ricky Rice, former junkie and current janitor, receives an envelope with a cryptic message and a bus ticket.  He takes the plunge into the unknown, surfacing at the Washburn Library in Vermont along with other stray souls, where they become Unlikely Scholars, looking into strange phenomena around the country that might have to do with the Voice of God.  Rice ends up in California, hunting down a rogue scholar, and ends up in wayyyyy over his head. […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Big Machine, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Religion, The Tournament of Books 2010, Victor LaValle