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The October Man - Couverture rigide

Aaronovitch, Ben

 
9781596069084: The October Man
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1596069082 ISBN 13 : 9781596069084
Editeur : Subterranean Pr, 2019

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

With this long new novella, bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch has crafted yet another wickedly funny and surprisingly affecting chapter in his beloved Rivers of London series. If you thought magic was confined to one country—think again.Trier: famous for wine, Romans and being Germany’s oldest city.When a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth. But fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.Enter Tobias Winter, an investigator for the Abteilung KDA, the branch of the German Federal Criminal Police which handles the supernatural. His aim is to get in, deal with the problem, and get out with the minimum of fuss, personal danger and paperwork. Together with frighteningly enthusiastic local cop, Vanessa Sommer, he quickly links the first victim to a group of ordinary middle aged men whose novel approach to their mid-life crisis may have reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century. As the rot spreads, literally, and the suspect list extends to people born before Frederick the Great, Tobias and Vanessa will need to find allies in some unexpected places.And to solve the case they’ll have to unearth the secret magical history of a city that goes back two thousand years.Presuming that history doesn’t kill them first.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

With this long new novella, bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch has crafted yet another wickedly funny and surprisingly affecting chapter in his beloved Rivers of London series. If you thought magic was confined to one country think again.Trier: famous for wine, Romans and being Germany s oldest city.When a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth. But fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.Enter Tobias Winter, an investigator for the Abteilung KDA, the branch of the German Federal Criminal Police which handles the supernatural. His aim is to get in, deal with the problem, and get out with the minimum of fuss, personal danger and paperwork. Together with frighteningly enthusiastic local cop, Vanessa Sommer, he quickly links the first victim to a group of ordinary middle aged men whose novel approach to their mid-life crisis may have reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century. As the rot spreads, literally, and the suspect list extends to people born before Frederick the Great, Tobias and Vanessa will need to find allies in some unexpected places.And to solve the case they ll have to unearth the secret magical history of a city that goes back two thousand years.Presuming that history doesn t kill them first.

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Éditeur
Subterranean Pr
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1596069082
ISBN 13 
9781596069084
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
209
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