Leviathan (Auster novel) building accidentally went off. According to the forensic reports that have just been published, the man was killed instantly. His body burst into dozens of small pieces, and fragments of his corpse were found as far as fifty feet away from the site of the explosion. —"Leviathan" Through his own investigations, the narrator attempts to answer questions as to who the man was who blew himself up, why he was found with a homemade bomb, and what circumstances brought him to a violent end. "Leviathan" is borrowed from the biblical sea monster that Thomas Hobbes used as a metaphor for
Leviathan in popular culture Maverick Hunter organization of Neo Arcadia. Similarly, in Rosenkreuzstilette, a character resembling her, Trauare Wrede, who is the fourth member of RKS, wields a spear just like her, and her spear is called the Chaos Spear Leviathan. In the game series "Gears of War" the Leviathan was a species of aquatic animals that lived in bodies of deep water and later on the surface. In the game they were feared by another enemy, the Locust, who wouldn't go near their territory. In "Forsaken" a giant hovering tank named Leviathan is one of the early bosses in the game. In the