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Spiral: A Novel by Geary, Joseph is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Nicholas Greer is broke and on the verge of divorce. The life of Frank Spira, the controversial British painter he’s been researching for six years, has become more real to him than his own. But the book is finished now—a nine-hundred-page monument and the definitive biography. At least it looks that way until Nick gets a call telling him that one of Spira’s ex-lovers, Jacob Grossman, a man who went missing twenty-six years ago, has been spotted in Manhattan, eighty-four years old and homeless. Nick tracks Grossman to a hostel, hoping to find answers to the few niggling questions that remain. Instead he gets news of a picture, a work created by Spira in Tangier in the fall of 1957, which the artist supposedly destroyed. If it existed, Incarnation, Spira’s only religious work, would now be worth a small fortune. An hour after the interview, Jacob Grossman is brutally murdered, and Nick finds himself drawn into a search for explanations. Going back to his sources, he uncovers a series of lies, secrets, and disturbing behavior, and begins to make out a flaw running through Spira’s life, a dark seam that leads all the way back to Tangier. Only as Nick comes to understand the significan

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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Geary, Joseph
Publisher
New York: Pantheon Books
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9780375422232
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
Rating
4.5 / 5 (4 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14