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The chronicle of two readers finding each other, and their deadly struggle with forces beyond their understanding, all within the margins of a book conceived by Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst.   The book:Ship of Theseus,the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.   The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world\'s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him.   The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they\'re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears.