The novel was written in 1999 and is a book divided into chapters in which completely strangers somehow encountered the mysterious “Pizrak of Manhattan” and talked about it. The book itself has moved far from the novel by Gaston Leroux, that is, from the original it only has details and the names of the main characters. The famous American detective writer Frederick Forsythe wrote this novel “to order”, commissioned by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom Forsythe has a long relationship friendly relations since the time when Webber wrote the music for the film based on his “Odessa files”, and is a sequel to the musical ALW.