City of Pillars

By Stefan Isaksson

City of Pillars
Dominic Peloso
Invisible College Press
215 pages
ISBN: 1931468001

It was a day just like any other day in Abraham Mitchell Sinclair’s life. After saying goodbye to his perfectly beautiful wife he left his perfectly beautiful house in his new black 1958 Cadillac Sedan and started the drive to his work at the law firm in San Francisco where he was on his way to becoming partner. A few more years of hard work, and the life he and his wife had would be even more perfect.

But whoever said happiness lasts forever? In Sinclair’s case it ends when he gets to the Golden Gate Bridge. Stuck in the usual morning traffic rush-hour he suddenly spots an open spot in the line of cars next to him, and fast as lightning he drives there; right in front of another black 1958 Cadillac Sedan. Then when it becomes his turn to pay the man in the tollbooth he discovers a strange Man in Black standing there, who without a word throws him a mysterious package. But being the busy man that he is, Sinclair doesn’t care too much about the unexpected gift.

Which soon will change, quite drastically. Because as soon as the package – which contains a large bunch of papers with strange writing – enters his life, everything is turned on upside down. People are getting killed all around him, he loses everything in life that means something to him, and wherever he goes the mysterious Men in Black always follows close behind. And when he starts translating the documents, a whole world opens up for him…

City of Pillars is a piece of fictions filled with Men in Black, spectacular action, esoteric thoughts, and paranoid conspiracy theories. Sinclair’s travels take him around the world and lasts for several years, but it never becomes boring and it’s most definitely one of those books you just don’t want to stop reading once you get into it. Peloso writes in a fascinating and thoughtful way, and even though most of his reading includes things that most skeptics and hardcore scientists refute instantly he still manages somehow to make the reader really think about it all. Even though it’s a work of fiction. Because what if, just what if, some of the things he writes about indeed were true?

It’s truly a mindboggling story, page after page, and if it hadn’t been for several quite annoying proof-reading errors it would absolutely be able to get the top grade.