The Keeper: A Martial Arts Thriller - Brossura

Mostert, Natasha

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1909965138 ISBN 13: 9781909965133

Casa editrice: Portable Magic Ltd, 2014

Riassunto

From the award-winning author of Season of the Witch, comes a highly original thriller blending mysticism with science and exploring themes as old as time: the imperative of violence, the redemptive power of love and the quest to live forever. What is the greatest desire of all? In the death choked corridors of Palermo's famous catacombs, a young man stands surrounded by eight thousand mummified corpses. The answer he gives, will set the course of his life and take him on a journey into the heart of darkness. Adrian Ashton is a brilliant man: a quantum physicist and chronobiologist who has devoted his life to the study of chi - the vital energy that runs through our bodies. A gifted scientist, he is also a skilled martial artist - and a hunter. Calling himself Dragonfly, he preys on fighters and martial artists who are blessed with a strong life force, draining them of their chi and making it his own. But the hunter becomes the hunted when a mysterious woman enters his life. A martial artist herself, she belongs to a long line of Keepers: women who are warriors, healers and protectors. When Dragonfly targets the man she loves, she sets out to defeat him. It becomes a fight to the death in which love is both the greatest weakness and the biggest prize.

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L'autore:

Author of six suspense novels... Brilliant, raven-haired psychic... Saw her first ghost at age four... Likes to take midnight rides on horseback and practices levitation twice a day... OK, the part about the levitation and the horses is made up. The 'raven-haired psychic' description might be slightly over the top as well. And I haven't seen a ghost yet, but I plan to. The bit about the suspense novels is true. I live in London and I write dark, psychological thrillers with a strong dash of mysticism. My fourth book, SEASON OF THE WITCH, is a modern gothic thriller about techgnosis and the Art of Memory and won the Book to Talk About: World Book Day Award. I now write full-time. I am working on my seventh novel, titled WHISPER and have also branched out into script-writing after selling my first Hollywood screenplay. Previous jobs include selling shoes, teaching in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch at a South African university and moonlighting as a project coordinator in the publishing department of a public television station in New York City. I am an avid kickboxer. Future goals include executing a perfect spinning crescent kick, writing poetry and coming face to face with the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe.

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• Editore: Portable Magic Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1909965138
• ISBN 13: 9781909965133
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 340