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Informationen zum Autor Linda Buckley-Archer is the author of the critically acclaimed Gideon trilogy. Originally trained as a linguist, she is now a full-time novelist and scriptwriter. She has written a television drama for the BBC and several radio dramas, as well as various journalistic pieces for papers like the Independent . The Gideon Trilogy was inspired by the criminal underworld of eighteenth-century London. Klappentext Gideon Seymour! an 18th-century gentleman! befriends Peter Schock and Kate Dyer! who have fallen straight from the 21st century as the result of a accident with a cubic antigravity machine from Mr. Dyer's top-secret experiments. Now the future of history is in all their hands. Zusammenfassung Previously published as GIDEON THE CUTPURSE 1763 Gideon Seymour, thief and gentleman, hides from the villainous Tar Man. Suddenly the sky peels away like fabric and from the gaping hole fall two curious-looking children. Peter Schock and Kate Dyer have fallen straight from the twenty-first century, thanks to an experiment with an antigravity machine. Before Gideon and the children have a chance to gather their wits, the Tar Man takes off with the machine -- and Peter and Kate's only chance of getting home. Soon Gideon, Peter, and Kate are swept into a journey through eighteenth-century London and form a bond that, they hope, will stand strong in the face of unfathomable treachery.
