The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery -- Adam Gopnik, Hardcover Presidents & Heads of State and he's a bookkeeper at

and he's a bookkeeper at his family's brewery who never left his hometown

When mayhem and murder jump off the page and into her small town

But Kite's mission soon goes wrong and he is left stranded in a hostile city with a former KGB officer on his trail

kept as a pet since infancy

The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery -- Adam Gopnik, Hardcover Presidents & Heads of State and he's a bookkeeper atFor decades now, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a more fundamental matter, one he had often meditated on in The New Yorker: How do masters learn their miraculous skill, whether it was drawing a museum ready nude or baking a perfect sourdough loaf? How could anyone become so good at anything? There seemed to be a fundamental