Book of the Art Series / The Great and Secret Show / Clive Barker

Memory, prophecy and fantasy, the past, the future and the dreaming moment in between are all one country living through an immortal day. To know this is wisdom. To use it is art. Armageddon begins with a murder at the Dead Letter Office in Omaha. A lake that never existed falls from the clouds over Palomo Grove, CA. Young passion blossoms as the world sinks into war. The great and secret show has begun on the world’s stage. Soon the final curtain must fall.

The novel is about the conflict between two highly evolved men – Randolph Jaffe and Richard Fletcher – over the mystical dream sea called Quiddity. Jaffe hopes to tap into Quiddity’s power while Fletcher wants to prevent it from being tainted. The conflict between the two men spills into the real world in a decades-long feud, distorting reality and affecting the entire human race.