It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat - smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague.
In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year-old man, vaguely recollected by the locals as a former detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than his fellow man. Into his life...
Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books....
