Zenon McClow, a businessman with a checkered past, flees the United States, hiding first in Ecuador and then in the tropical paradise of New Caledonia. Plagued by burning existential questions, he begins to write down his life story while on the remote Isle of Pines. After failing to find relief, he turns to penning The Mask, a historical novel set in the mysterious land of ancient Thrace. Zenon’s fiction endeavor is inspired by Evmondia, a kind-hearted Bulgarian girl living in New York who … [Read more...] about Cracking of the Mask by Alexander and Maria Green