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The Orpheus Descent

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
EUR12,50

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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 route to the afterlife. Archaeologist Lily Barnes, working on a dig in southern Italy, has just found another. But the thirteenth tablet is different. This tablet names the location to the mouth of hell itself. And then Lily vanishes.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4447-3137-8
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum24.10.2013
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 128 mm, Höhe 198 mm, Dicke 35 mm
Gewicht330 g
Artikel-Nr.4147629
KatalogLibri
Datenquelle-Nr.A21017667
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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. He can be found online at www.tom-harper.co.uk.

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