The Book of Air and Shadows
Condition: SECONDHAND
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A clever, pacey thriller set around the search for a lost Shakespearean play. A lost manuscript and it's secrets buried for centuries. An encrypted trail that leads to incalculable wealth. A distinguished Shakespearean scholar tortured to death. All clues inn a dangerous hunt to find a hidden treasure that men are willing to kill -- and die -- for! DROWNED BOOK is a complex, tricksy, action-packed literary mystery tale. It centres upon the book of the title --which might just be the long-lost autograph manuscript of Shakespeare's last play 'Mary Queen of Scots', written to rehabilitate the new King's mother in the the minds of the nation; and offers the reader entrance into a world in which antiquarian books collectors, bookbinding experts, literary academia, intellectual rights lawyers and Russian gangsters butt up against one another in a thoroughly violent but engaging and page-turning fashion.
Author: Michael Gruber
Format: Paperback, 544 pages, 153mm x 234mm
Genre: Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Description
A clever, pacey thriller set around the search for a lost Shakespearean play. A lost manuscript and it's secrets buried for centuries. An encrypted trail that leads to incalculable wealth. A distinguished Shakespearean scholar tortured to death. All clues inn a dangerous hunt to find a hidden treasure that men are willing to kill -- and die -- for! DROWNED BOOK is a complex, tricksy, action-packed literary mystery tale. It centres upon the book of the title --which might just be the long-lost autograph manuscript of Shakespeare's last play 'Mary Queen of Scots', written to rehabilitate the new King's mother in the the minds of the nation; and offers the reader entrance into a world in which antiquarian books collectors, bookbinding experts, literary academia, intellectual rights lawyers and Russian gangsters butt up against one another in a thoroughly violent but engaging and page-turning fashion.
The Book of Air and Shadows