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The Book of Air and Shadows
by Michael Gruber
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0007251912
- ISBN 13
- 9780007251919
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Harper Collins, UK, 2007. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 466 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper Collins, UK, 2007. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. No creasing, wear or marks to covers or pages. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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. *** Quantity Available: 2. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN/EAN: 9780007251919. Inventory No: 09060022.. 9780007251919
Synopsis
A distinguished Shakespearean scholar found tortured to death . . .A lost manuscript and its secrets buried for centuries . . .An encrypted map that leads to incalculable wealth... The Washington Post called Michael Gruber's previous work "a miracle of intelligent fiction and among the essential novels of recent years." Now comes his most intellectually provocative and compulsively readable novel yet.Tap-tapping the keys and out come the words on this little screen, and who will read them I hardly know. I could be dead by the time anyone actually gets to read them, as dead as, say, Tolstoy. Or Shakespeare. Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?These are the words of Jake Mishkin, whose seemingly innocent job as an intellectual property lawyer has put him at the center of a deadly conspiracy and a chase to find a priceless treasure involving William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killer—or killers—unknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic chase that began when a fire in an antiquarian bookstore revealed the hiding place of letters containing a shocking secret, concealed for four hundred years. In a frantic race from New York to England and Switzerland, Jake finds himself matching wits with a shadowy figure who seems to anticipate his every move. What at first seems like a thrilling puzzle waiting to be deciphered soon turns into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, where no one—not family, not friends, not lovers—is to be trusted.Moving between twenty-first-century America and seventeenth-century England, The Book of Air and Shadows is a modern thriller that brilliantly re-creates William Shakespeare's life at the turn of the seventeenth century and combines an ingenious and intricately layered plot with a devastating portrait of a contemporary man on the brink of self-discovery... or self-destruction.
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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09060022
- Title
- The Book of Air and Shadows
- Author
- Michael Gruber
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0007251912
- ISBN 13
- 9780007251919
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Book of Air and Shadows
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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