New York: Random House, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - An original and startling take on the theme of the doppelganger - "a complex tale of a decent young man troubled since childhood by barely understood flashes of precognition and an awareness of a shadowy 'other.' Ned Dunstan returns home to Edgerton, Illinois, as his mother, Star Dunstan, lies dying. Impelled to trace his tangled paternal lineage after Star's death, Ned finds himself caught up in a web of murder and other heinous crimes, not only in the present but also in a past." 482 pp plus an author's note. ISBN: 0-679401385.