By the bestselling author of Passenger Zero and Sao Paulo 13.
Egypt, winter 1989. Following an unannounced total solar eclipse, handball coach Younis Hilal is plunged into a living nightmare: his mind begins merging with the memories, identities, and physical injuries of complete strangers. Cursed with a selective amnesia that resets every midnight, Younis must record his daily life in a notebook to preserve his sanity.
Meanwhile, a retired secret agent investigates “The Case of the Empty Skulls”—a series of gruesome deaths involving victims found with liquefied brains and biohazard tattoos, who officially never existed. As these two parallel mysteries collide, they unravel a dark conspiracy to rewrite humanity’s collective memory.
Ahmad Abdel-Fattah Saleh delivers an exquisite, fast-paced psychological sci-fi thriller that relentlessly challenges the boundaries of reality. The Case of the Empty Skulls is a brilliant, mind-bending mystery proving that once the truth is uncovered, there is no turning back.