Three Days

A young disciple discovers from his mentor that the most powerful illusion is not the one you perform - it's the one people perform >Micah is sixteen years old when he leaves his village with a coin, a cord, and five years of training from a seasoned master. He has learned to manage attention, to read a crowd, to give people the experience of witnessing the unexplainable. What he has yet to >In the village of Kadesh, a fly lands on his open palm at the right >Three Days follows Micah across the years as the name Lotan spreads through the region - a name he did not choose. He watches the mechanism with the craftsman's eye: each event locks into the next like the tooth of a ratchet, and the ratchet only turns one way. The stories belong to the people who tell them. The truth belongs >Set against the landscape and political tensions of a forgotten corner of a vast empire, this is a novel about the distance between what happens and what is remembered - about how legends are made, what they cost, and what remains when the last witness is gone.