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Napier, Bill

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 031235486X ISBN 13 : 9780312354862

Editeur : St. Martin's Griffin, 2005

Synopsis

As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400-year-old journal and is then brutally murdered twelve hours later, Harry begins to suspect he's being pulled into something sinister. What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life and death? Why is someone prepared to pay Harry a fortune for it? He turns to marine historian Zola Kahn to uncover the mysteries. And when they meet at the old Greenwich Observatory, Harry is convinced there is more to Zola than meets the eye. The trail of the journal leads him into a world of deadly Elizabethan conspiracies, with a thread of history that takes him through a thousand years of religious intrigue back to the blood-soaked Crusades and a long lost icon whose rediscovery has the potential to ignite a worldwide religious war. Combining the thrill of a contemporary chase novel with a historical puzzle this is one novel that will leave readers gasping for breath.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Bill Napier was born in Perth, Scotland in 1940. He studied astronomy at Glasgow University and has spent most of his career as an astronomer at observatories in Scotland, Italy and Northern Ireland. He now lives in Southern Ireland with his wife and divides his time between writing novels and carrying out research with colleagues in the UK and California. He is an honorary professor in the Centre for Astrobiology at Cardiff University and has an asteroid -- 7096 Napier -- named after him (it pursues a chaotic, eccentric orbit but is not yet a collision hazard). His fiction includes The Furies, Nemesis and The Lure. He likes to cook but faces stiff competition from wife and children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St. Martin's Griffin
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 031235486X
• ISBN 13: 9780312354862
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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