Here is the publisher’s description and further down is a handy link to Amazon:
After Eli, a scholarly
college student, finds and translates an ancient manuscript called The
Book of Skulls, he and his friends embark on a cross-country trip to Arizona
in search of a legendary monastery where they hope to find the secret of
immortality. On the journey with Eli, there’s Timothy, an upper-class WASP with
a trust fund and a solid sense of entitlement; Ned, a cynical poet and
alienated gay man; and Oliver, a Kansas farm boy who escaped his rural origins
and now wants to escape death.
If they can find the
House of Skulls where immortal monks allegedly reside, they’ll undergo a
rigorous initiation. But do those eight grinning skulls mean the joke will be
on them? For a sacrifice will be required. Two must die so that two may live
forever . . .
Stretching the boundary
between science fiction and horror, Robert Silverberg masterfully probes deeper
existential questions of morality, brotherhood, and self-determined destiny in
what Harlan Ellison refers to as “one of my favorite nightmare novels.”
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