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The Wheel of Darkness: An Agent Pendergast Novel
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
The Wheel of Darkness: An Agent Pendergast Novel
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Douglas Preston
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By (author) Lincoln Child
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Series | Agent Pendergast |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:528 | Dimensions(mm): Height 199,Width 133 |
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Category/Genre | Thriller/suspense Adventure |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781409136460
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Classifications | Dewey:813.6 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Orion Publishing Co
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Imprint |
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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Publication Date |
1 September 2011 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help. Luckily Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward, Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been protecting. The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As the ship slips into the night, it becomes a deadly race to recover the secret of the monks, or blackness to threaten to fall not just over the ship, but the wider world.
Author Biography
Douglas Preston is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. Lincoln Child is a former book editor at St. Martin's Press and has published numerous short-story anthologies. Together they are the NY Times bestselling co-authors of a string of bestselling action adventure and thriller novels, including the Agent Pendergast and Gideon Crew adventures. Douglas Preston lives on the coast of Maine, while Lincoln Child lives in New Jersey.
ReviewsI just loved it . . . It's suddenly like Sherlock Holmes is having thumpingly good mysterious adventures in the present day with monsters and killers in exotic locales. * Life on Magrs *
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