Detective Jacob Lev has awakened dazed and confused: it appears he picked up a woman the night before, but can’t remember anything about it. And then suddenly, she’s gone. Not long after, he’s dispatched to a murder scene in a house in the Hollywood hills. There is no body, only a head. And seared into a kitchen counter is a message: the Hebrew word for justice. Lev is about to embark on an odyssey—through Los Angeles, London, and Prague, through the labyrinthine mysteries of a grotesque ancient legend, and most of all, through himself. All that he has believed to be true will be upended. And not only his world, but the world itself, will be changed.


雅各．列夫偵探醒過來後，覺得腦袋暈眩且困惑不已；他前一天晚上似乎搭訕過一位小姐，可是現在卻什麼都想不起來。之後，她突然就不見了。不久之後，他被派遣前往好萊塢山丘上的一間房子，那裡發生了一起謀殺案，現場只留下一個頭顱。廚房流理檯上烙下了一條訊息：「正義」的希伯來文。雅各．列夫偵探即將踏上一趟漫長的冒險旅程，從洛杉磯、倫敦到布拉格，經歷奇異的古老神話裡錯綜複雜的謎團。最重要的是，雅各．列夫也得在這趟旅程中探索自身。所有他過去深信的真理將被推翻。除了他自己的世界以外，整個世界也將被改變。