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Book Of Air And Shadows

Book Of Air And Shadows

Book Of Air And Shadows
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Book Of Air And Shadows

by Gruber, Michael

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Vg In Wraps. Lightly Worn. Crease In Cover. Pages: 466.
ISBN 10
0061456578
ISBN 13
9780061456572
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New York: Harper. Vg In Wraps. Lightly Worn. Crease In Cover. Pages: 466.. 2009. Trade Paperback..

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
Vintage-Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
MASTER305017I
Title
Book Of Air And Shadows
Author
Gruber, Michael
Format/Binding
Trade Paperback.
Book Condition
Used - Vg In Wraps. Lightly Worn. Crease In Cover. Pages: 466.
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0061456578
ISBN 13
9780061456572
Publisher
Harper
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2009
Keywords
Mystery, Historic Thrillers, New York Suspense, Detective Fiction

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