“A Scanner Darkly” is a novel-game, mysterious, unpredictable. It's about people rearranging not only chips on the board, but also other people. What are the rules of this game and whose masks will be torn off at the end? Alexander Bruno is a professional backgammon player. He is handsome, smart, masterfully extracting money from the rich, and he is also endowed with telepathic abilities. However, recently they have been blocked by a spot that has appeared before his eyes due to a tumor growing in his head. Who will he have to turn to when circumstances bring Alexander to critical limits, and he is left without money and with poor health? He has to answer an important question: is he himself playing or is he a mere piece in the game of life? “In the person of Bruno, Leatham gave us a noble traveler, a knight errant, who went in search of his place on earth.” The New York Times "A smart, first-rate novel you can't put down." New York Times Book Review "Deliciously unusual." Vogue's "A Scanner Darkly" will have readers digging into the depths of their closets (or the local store) to find a backgammon set. Exciting, deft, fearless." San Francisco Chronicle