The Orpheus Descent
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- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2014
Summary
I have never written down the answers to the deepest mysteries, nor will I ever…
The philosopher Plato wrote these words more than two thousand years ago, following a perilous voyage to Italy. It was an experience about which he never spoke again, but from which he emerged as the greatest thinker in all of human history.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444731378 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444731378 |
| Author: | Tom Harper |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 345g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 38mm |
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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.
Harper effortlessly draws the reader into an unfamiliar time, bringing alive the characters and their motivations - Publisher’s WeeklyTom 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.Harper effortlessly draws the reader into an unfamiliar time, bringing alive the characters and their motivations - Publisher’s WeeklyTom 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.Harper effortlessly draws the reader into an unfamiliar time, bringing alive the characters and their motivations - Publisher’s WeeklyAbout The Author
Tom Harper
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.
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