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On the island of Samoa, in a house perched on a cliff beneath a smouldering volcano, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labours over a new novel. It is rumoured that this may be the author of Treasure Island’s greatest masterpiece.
On the other side of the world this news fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, literary pirates who steal the latest manuscripts by famous writers to smuggle them to a hungry public. But a changing world means the bookaneers will soon become extinct.
Two adversaries set out for the south Pacific: Pen Davenport, a tortured criminal genius haunted by his past and Belial, his nemesis. Both dream of fortune and immortality with this last and most incredible heist.
The Last Bookaneer thrillingly depicts the lost world of these doomed outlaws, a tropical island with a violent destiny, a brewing colonial war and a reclusive genius directing events from high in his mountain compound.
On the other side of the world this news fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, literary pirates who steal the latest manuscripts by famous writers to smuggle them to a hungry public. But a changing world means the bookaneers will soon become extinct.
Two adversaries set out for the south Pacific: Pen Davenport, a tortured criminal genius haunted by his past and Belial, his nemesis. Both dream of fortune and immortality with this last and most incredible heist.
The Last Bookaneer thrillingly depicts the lost world of these doomed outlaws, a tropical island with a violent destiny, a brewing colonial war and a reclusive genius directing events from high in his mountain compound.
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Recensione:
"An ingenious thriller" (Sunday Times)
"Masterly story-telling" (Daily Mail)
"A mixture of a classic heist and literary history lesson; the whole Victorian world of letters is cleverly and wittily reimagined" (Kate Saunders The Times)
"A historical jigsaw puzzle of literary larceny, deception, and derring-do...richly imagined" (Boston Globe)
"[Pearl’s] clever final twist will surprise the general reader, and please Stevenson scholars" (Janette Currie Independent on Sunday)
Descrizione del libro:
"Masterly story-telling" (Daily Mail)
"A mixture of a classic heist and literary history lesson; the whole Victorian world of letters is cleverly and wittily reimagined" (Kate Saunders The Times)
"A historical jigsaw puzzle of literary larceny, deception, and derring-do...richly imagined" (Boston Globe)
"[Pearl’s] clever final twist will surprise the general reader, and please Stevenson scholars" (Janette Currie Independent on Sunday)
Mystery, celebrity, theft – and a thrilling adventure set at the ends of the earth...
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- EditoreHarvill Secker
- Data di pubblicazione2015
- ISBN 10 1846556201
- ISBN 13 9781846556203
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine400
- Valutazione libreria
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