David Boring Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author (2008) As a loving mother to

As a loving mother to whom the unthinkable happened

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

And there are others watching Jacen's progress closely

And then things really start to get strange -- and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence

David Boring Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author (2008) As a loving mother toMeet 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.