A YOUNG MAN IS DRAWN INTO A DEADLY PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EROTIC GAME. MAG IS A NOVEL FULL OF EXTRAORDINARY TWISTS AND TURNS. The book's hero, a young Englishman named Nicholas Urfe, takes up a teaching post on a Greek island. There he befriends the owner of a magnificent estate. His friendship with the millionaire plunges the young man into a nightmare. With each passing day, reality and fantasy blur further, and Urfe becomes an unwitting actor in the rich man's private theatre, coming face to face with death, sex and violence. He begins to fight desperately to stay alive. The plot, a veritable labyrinth of events, is accompanied by cultural charades, and the story itself prompts us to reflect on the illusory nature of the world around us and the moral principles that operate within it. "A magnificent mystification... In the spirit of the finest achievements of the Marquis de Sade, James Frazer, Georgi Gurdjieff, Helena Blavatsky, C.G. Jung, Arthur Edward Waite, Aleister Crowley and Franz Kafka." "Financial Times"