博客來救主聖殿是一處遼闊荒涼的地方，那裡沒有喜悅，沒有希望。多數住在聖殿裡的人，還是個小男孩時就被抓來這裡，多年來忍受著救主大人們的殘酷統治，他們的冷酷和暴力手段，只為了一個目的——信奉獨一信仰，侍奉獨一真神。
聖殿裡有著錯綜複雜、東彎西拐的無數走廊，其中一道走廊裡站著一位男孩。他的年紀約莫十四五歲，露出疑惑的神情，這裡的人都是這樣。他早就忘了自己的真實姓名，現在他們都叫他湯瑪斯．凱爾。凱爾個性怪異，沉默寡言，聰明過人，魅力迷人，天生殘暴，冷酷弒殺。凱爾習慣了殘酷，似乎免疫了，但不久之後，凱爾會在錯誤的時間，開錯了門，目睹一件恐怖的行徑，因而不得不離開聖殿，否則就要面對死亡。
凱爾唯一的存活希望就是跨越乾旱的不毛之地，逃往曼菲斯城。曼菲斯城和聖殿在每一方面都是天差地遠，曼菲斯城美得令人嘆為觀止，極其不信神，腐敗又墮落。
然而，救主不計一切代價，也要把凱爾抓回來……這並非因為凱爾得知了那個恐怖的祕密，而是因為一個更嚇人的祕密，凱爾現在還不知道……
The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place - a place without joy or hope. Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the Lord Redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose - to serve in the name of the One True Faith.
In one of the Sanctuary's vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boy. He is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old - he is not sure and neither is anyone else. He has long-forgotten his real name, but now they call him Thomas Cale. He is strange and secretive, witty and charming, violent and profoundly bloody-minded. He is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune, but soon he will open the wrong door at the wrong time and witness an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place, or die.
His only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis, a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely Godless, and deeply corrupt.
But the Redeemers want Cale back at any price... not because of the secret he now knows but because of a much more terrifying secret he does not.
★本書中譯版《上帝的左手》由晶冠出版社出版。
作者簡介
保羅．霍夫曼（Paul Hoffman）
劇作家，已出版的小說有：《鱷魚的智慧》（暫譯，The Wisdom of Crocodiles，2000 年出版），該書預測了世界金融體制的瓦解；《審查制度的黃金時代》（暫譯，The Golden Age of Censorship，2007 年出版），該書是根據他身為電影審查員的經驗，撰寫而成的黑色喜劇。
Paul Hoffman is the author of two previous novels, The Wisdom of Crocodiles (2000), which predicted the collapse of the world financial system, and The Golden Age of Censorship (2007), a black comedy based on his experiences as a film censor.
