A suicidal attorney in Los Angeles on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
A patient in a convalescent home in the war-torn city of Aleppo.
What could they possibly have in common?
A mysterious war diary from 1870 binds these two perfect strangers, unraveling a string of family secrets and buried legacies that threaten to upend the attorney s life and identity.
Packed with uncanny twists and hair-raising turns, Diary of a Dead Man takes readers on a harrowing odyssey from the postcard-perfect veneers of the City of Angels to the rubble and chaos of war-torn Aleppo, delivering a heart-wrenching story prescient to our current times.