En décembre 1991, quand Franck Sharko, tout juste sorti de l'école des inspecteurs, débarque au 36 quai des Orfèvres, on le conduit aux archives où il est chargé de reprendre l'affaire des Disparues du Sud parisien. L'état des lieux est simple : entre 1986 et 1989, trois femmes ont été enlevées, puis retrouvées dans des champs, violées et frappées de multiples coups de couteau. Depuis, malgré des centaines de convocations, de nuits blanches, de procès-verbaux, le prédateur court toujours. Sharko consacre tout son temps à ce dossier, jusqu'à ce soir où un homme paniqué frappe à la porte du 36. Il vient d'entrer en possession d'une photo figurant une femme couchée dans un lit, les mains attachées aux montants, la tête enfoncée dans un sac. Une photo derrière laquelle a été notée une adresse, et qui va entraîner le jeune inspecteur dans une enquête qui dépassera tout ce qu'il a pu imaginer...

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life. In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life. In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life. In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.