The Quincunx

John Huffman was to learn a great many things before he got very old: he would know why humans toiled under inhuman conditions, why the poor scavenged in rotting sewers, and why both the sane and the mad starved in asylums. Yet he did not know why an unnamed menace had haunted his childhood, hounded his mother, and now threatened his own life. The answer lay in a document written half a century before, a document that had provoked avarice, hatred, murder and lunacy, that had determined the... Voir plus