A mystery to be solved

On August 17, 1981, Marcus Carlton, world famous after the publication of his first and only book, The Mechanism [El mecanismo], commits suicide by throwing himself from the Golden Gate Bridge. His body was never found. Thirty years later, Jonathan Bennett, freelance journalist and writer, meets Don Carter, an old man who not only bears an astonishing resemblance to Marcus Carlton, but also seems to know The Mechanism [El mecanismo] by heart...