The Vault Boyd Morrison. S&S/Touchstone, $24.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8182-9. ... PW EDITORS’ PICKS FOR THE BEST NEW BOOKS. Sign Up. Featured Fiction Reviews. Visions and Temptation.

Boyd Morrison was finishing a Ph.D. in industrial engineering when he wrote his first novel. Five agents rejected it. Nine years later he tried again, and this time he did get an agent—after nearly ...