*A People Best Book of July!*
*A New York Post Best Beach Read!*
*A Free Press Summer Read!*

The author of Black Chalk, “the smart summer thriller you’ve been waiting for” (NPR), returns with a mesmerizing new novelabout a dangerous secret society at Oxford University, and the first-year Literature student whose life begins to unravel in its shadow

When Ali McCain, an eighteen-year-old from Los Angeles, is accepted at Oxford, its a chance to fulfill his dreams. To study English literature in England; to meet true intellectuals; and to glimpse the life he might have lived had his fatherBritish rock star Gel McCain, legendary frontman of the Pale Firesnot abandoned him and his mother when he was a toddler.

But not long after he arrives at the storied campus, Ali is drawn into a dark, disorienting world where events grow more and more curious by the day. Trading on his fathers name, he gains entry into one of Oxfords oldest and most selective secret societies, the Saracens. As he immerses himself in this rarefied world, he inadvertently sets in motion a series of events that might culminate in disaster.

A mind-bending literary house of mirrors, replete with bookish allusions and Easter eggs ranging from Brideshead Revisited to King Lear,The Rabbit Clubis an arresting work of dark academia by the categorys finest writer.