Nemesis Looms
I remember your name but your face escapes me.
I do not remember much and could not get my head around it at the time. I then lost my copy in a house move at some point before I finished it and would like to have another crack at it.
The main character is some kind of savant and is - or becomes at some point in the story - profoundly deaf. He is the last of a noble family of which, it is revealed in passing, the male line have a long history of dying in stupid ways before achieving anything of real note. (The character's own father carried on the tradition by drowning after falling asleep on a riverbank whilst fishing). He ends up studying something or other in Jerusalem involving the Dead Sea scrolls or similar. The only other thing I can remember is that at some point, the laboratory in which he is working is destroyed by an explosion which he fails to notice.
Thanks in advance...
The main character is some kind of savant and is - or becomes at some point in the story - profoundly deaf. He is the last of a noble family of which, it is revealed in passing, the male line have a long history of dying in stupid ways before achieving anything of real note. (The character's own father carried on the tradition by drowning after falling asleep on a riverbank whilst fishing). He ends up studying something or other in Jerusalem involving the Dead Sea scrolls or similar. The only other thing I can remember is that at some point, the laboratory in which he is working is destroyed by an explosion which he fails to notice.
Thanks in advance...