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In Blot, Rick de Villiers takes readers inside the mysterious Bureau of Dead Letters, where a change in leadership begins to unsettle the outgoing Director. Suspicious of the country’s new chief censor and increasingly convinced that something dangerous is unfolding, he turns to the one person who may understand: the predecessor he once displaced.
Description
The directorship of the Bureau of Dead Letters is changing, and not everyone is happy about it …
… especially the outgoing Director. Despite promising first impressions, the country’s new chief censor has been acting strangely. Is he too unstable to be trusted with the nation’s most sensitive materials? What is the new Director’s private, puzzling agenda?
No one else in the Bureau seems to sense the looming danger, so the outgoing Director begins to pen a missive to a distant recipient, the only person who might understand his plight, but also the man he dethroned in the first place – his own predecessor.
A tale of trysts, paranoia, poetry and state secrets, Blot is an audacious and original novel, filled with unquenchable desires and clandestine messages. It asks the nagging question on every page: can anyone trust the words they read?
