Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker an aspiring poet & student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born & his silent & seductive girlfriend Margot Before long Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life Three different narrators tell the story as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 & moves from New York to Paris & to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled sexual hunger & a relentless quest for justice With uncompromising insight Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth & memory authorship & identity to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers