The Orpheus Descent

Informationen zum Autor Tom Harper was born in West Germany in 1977 and grew up in Germany, Belgium and America. He studied history at Lincoln College, Oxford, worked for a while in the glamorous world of pensions services, and now writes full time. He lives in York with his wife and two sons. His novels have been sold into twenty languages, from Brazil to China. In 2001 Tom Harper's debut, The Blighted Cliffs, was the runner up for the CWA Debut Dagger Award. He can be found online at www.tom-harper.co.uk. Klappentext Today, twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Archaeologist Lily Barnes, working on a dig in southern Italy, has just found another. But the thirteenth tablet is different. This tablet names the location to the mouth of hell itself. And then Lily vanishes. Zusammenfassung Would you pay the ultimate price for the ultimate knowledge?

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'Tom Harper has been writing elaborate thrillers that marry ironclad narrative skills with some of the most elegantly understated writing in the field; he's the thinking person's Dan Brown. Actually, Harper deserves the latter's success -- and more, as Harper is comfortably the better writer.' Barry Forshaw, author of The Rough Guide to Crime Writing.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Harper
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.10.2013
• EAN: 9781444731378
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-3137-8
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Science Fiction, Adventure, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, Thriller / suspense fiction, Adventure fiction, Crime and mystery fiction