“An eye-opening dazzler” (Stephen King) in regards to a couple of globetrotting, gore-obsessed journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopher’s death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy from legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg.

Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive in the yellow journalism from the social-media age. Naomi finds herself attracted to the headlines encircling a famous couple, Célestine and Aristide, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine provides about Consumed: A Book been found lifeless, and Aristide has disappeared. Police believe him of killing her and consuming parts of her body. However Naomi sets off to discover him, and as she delves deeper into the couple’s lives, she discovers the news headlines story may just skim the top of disturbing works they performed collectively.

Journalist Nathan, at the same time, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of the unlicensed surgeon named Zoltán Molnár, once sought by Interpol for body organ trafficking. After sleeping with among Molnár’s patients, Nathan agreements a uncommon STD known as Roiphe’s and moves to Toronto, driven to meet the man who uncovered the symptoms. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan discovers, now research his very own adult girl, whose bizarre behavior masks a damaging secret.

These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. Consumed can be an exuberant, provocative debut book from one of the world’s leading film directors, a writer of “fierce sculptural intensity” (Jonathan Lethem, THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review) who makes it “difficult to look apart” (Publishers Weekly).