Shibboleth

"There are certain shibboleths to our condition."

At the end of the first book of The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy, Jack and Shreve are incarcerado?physically locked up. Shreve''s back in the custody of the state of Arkansas, and Jack''s somewhere in the clutches of Mr. Quincrux?both problems Shreve aims to rectify.

Cages might hold Shreve''s body, but the power that''s been growing since his enc...