Dark Fire
(Sprache: Englisch)
The second Shardlake novel in C. J. Sansom's remarkable historical crime series.
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The second Shardlake novel in C. J. Sansom's remarkable historical crime series.
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Summer, 1540. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the King's chief minister - and a new assignment . . .The secret of Greek Fire, the legendary substance with which the Byzantines destroyed the Arab navies, has been lost for centuries. Now an official of the Court of Augmentations has discovered the formula in the library of a dissolved London monastery. When Shardlake is sent to recover it, he finds the official and his alchemist brother brutally murdered - the formula has disappeared.
Now Shardlake must follow the trail of Greek Fire across Tudor London, while trying at the same time to prove his young client's innocence. But very soon he discovered nothing is as it seems . . .
'C. J. Sansom's magnificent books set in the reign of Henry VIII bring to life the sounds and smells of Tudor England' Sunday Times
'One of the author's greatest gifts is the immediacy of his descriptions . . . But it is Shardlake himself who steals the show. His honesty and humility shine out in a dark world where murder and mayhem are the order of the day' Colin Dexter
Autoren-Porträt von Christopher J. Sansom
C. J. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he retrained as a solicitor and practised in Sussex, until becoming a full-time writer. Sansom is the bestselling author of the acclaimed Shardlake series, the Spanish Civil War thriller Winter in Madrid and the number one bestseller Dominion. in 2023, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Sussex.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Christopher J. Sansom
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2015, Main Market Ed., 608 Seiten, mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, Maße: 12,9 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
- ISBN-10: 1447285840
- ISBN-13: 9781447285847
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.11.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Historical crime fiction is sometimes little more than a modern adventure in fancy dress. Not so the novels of C. J. Sansom, whose magnificent books set in the reign of Henry VIII bring to life the sounds and smells of Tudor England . . . Dark Fire is a creation of real brilliance. Sunday Times
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