Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utans

Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol Jorge Luis Borges and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain he finds himself at the centre of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons the mysteries of the Kabbala the possible destruction of the world and the Elizabethan magus John Dee's 'Eternal Orang-utan' which would end up by writing all the known books in the cosmos.