The Secrets of Folder 42

The Secrets of Folder 42 opens with the author forgetting his laptop and notebook in a taxi. What a chance!! The reader is introduced to the protagonists via two storylines playing out across continents and true historical events. Their stories proceed separately and eventually interweave spectacularly. There's successful novelist Christine McMillan - the unrivalled pioneer of new American realism who is facing writer's block, and her friend from college days, Brandon, a former US soldier turned literary agent who is mad about books. He declares 'the most beautiful thing is the tightrope walk between reality and fiction' - echoing Sebbata's own words that it is 'the art of the novel to make reality and fiction one' - and suggests that the secret past of Christine's father in Morocco could be the subject for her next novel. There's Rachid Bennacer, a porter in Christine's hotel in Morocco, who is a young PhD literature researcher studying the 1989 novel A Moroccan Jigsaw Puzzle. The