A debut novel from the creator of }Lost{ and }Cloverfield{. Eagerly anticipated; and shrouded in mystery; all we know is that it is a love story; a tale of suspense; and a book within a book One book. Two readers. A world of mystery; menace and desire A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes; which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own; leaving the book for the stranger; and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. THE BOOK: Ship of Theseus; the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V. M. Straka; in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched on a disorienting and perilous journey. THE WRITER: Straka; the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries; a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumours that swirl around him. THE READERS: Jennifer and Eric; a college senior and a disgraced grad student; both facing crucial decisions about who they are; who they might become; and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions; hurts and fears. S.; conceived by filmmaker J.J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst; is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand. It is also Abrams and Dorst's love letter to the written word.