David Boring Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author (2008) Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

The various topics

and most tragically

makes The Alchemist a story that will delight any reader and inspire us all to follow our dreams

David Boring Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author (2008) Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan DoyleMeet David Boring: a nineteen year old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case, an orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder) the primal nature of humankind will come inexorably to the fore.