The Janus Affair: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel - Brossura

Ballantine, Pip; Morris, Tee

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ISBN 10: 006204978X ISBN 13: 9780062049780

Casa editrice: Harper Voyager, 2012

Riassunto

When a fellow passenger aboard Britain's newest hypersteam train vanishes in a bolt of lightning, secret agents Wellington Books and Eliza Braun hold the fate of England in their hands as they go up against a fiendishly clever foe. Original. 40,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris have been collaborating since 2006 in podcast productions including Chasing the Bard, Weather Child, Billibub Baddings and The Case of the Singing Sword, and Morevi. Their collaborations have won them a variety of acclaim, including a Sir Julius Vogel award and a Parsec award. Their first writing collaboration was Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel. The book went on to win the 2011 Airship Award for Best Steampunk Literature of the Year. Together, they enjoy life in Virginia alongside their daughter and five extremely playful cats.

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Evildoers beware! Retribution is at hand, thanks to Britain's best-kept secret agents!!

Certainly no strangers to peculiar occurrences, agents Wellington Books and Eliza Braun are nonetheless stunned to observe a fellow passenger aboard Britain's latest hypersteam train suddenly vanish in a dazzling bolt of lightning. They soon discover this is not the only such disappearance . . . with each case going inexplicably unexamined by the Crown.

The fate of England is once again in the hands of an ingenious archivist paired with a beautiful, fearless lady of adventure. And though their foe be fiendishly clever, so then is Mr. Books . . . and Miss Braun still has a number of useful and unusual devices hidden beneath her petticoats.

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• Editore: Harper Voyager
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 006204978X
• ISBN 13: 9780062049780
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416