The Tesseract

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 273, [7]. Author's Note. Quarter-bound black linen cloth over chocolate brown paperboards, blind stamped to cover and lettered in metallic red to spine; burnt sienna endpapers. Jacket design by Marc J. Cohen.

Signed by Garland to title page.

His second novel. An intricately woven chase thriller set over three nocturnal hours in the slums of Manila, and triggered by a fatal misunderstanding. Basis for the 2003 film directed by Oxide Pang (a.k.a. the Pang Brothers), and starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Saskia Reeves. "[A]ll but flawless, a tour de force of brilliant narration and psychological acuity." –The Washington Post