The Standing One

by Jack Kelley

Born and raised far from the privileged world of New England prep schools, Nick Kagan arrives at Yale an outsider. But after meeting three mad, yet brilliant students and learning of their involvement in a mysterious suicide, he is ushered into a hidden world of obsessive pursuits and inner demons. Caught up in their psychological deviancy, he becomes the center of a strange pattern filled with illness, insanity, and worse. When the most brilliant of the three, the reclusive genius Bromius Latran, nearly strangles another student to death and then disappears, it is up to Nick to solve a bizarre mysteryÑbut he must proceed with caution; not all is what it seems in the Ivory Tower, and what began as an intellectual game could end in death.

560 pages, Paperback

Published April 21, 2008