The Dark Volume - Hardcover

Dahlquist, Gordon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385340362 ISBN 13: 9780385340366

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2009

Synopsis

Gordon Dahlquist transfixed readers across the world with his dazzling literary debut, the epic Victorian tale The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters. Now the internationally bestselling author continues an adventure like no other, featuring three heroes you will never forget.

Awakening from a fevered delirium, Celeste Temple finds herself in a fishing village on the remote Iron Coast. She has no idea where her companions, Cardinal Chang and Doctor Svenson, might be—nor whether any of her enemies survived the dirigible crash that marked her last conscious moment. And while her body seems intact, she cannot say the same for her mind. For she must contend not only with the possibility that peril awaits her but with the memory of her traitorous fiancé’s murder at sea...along with thousands of other memories that now live within her—courtesy of a bewitching glass book.

Hunted by murderous opportunists and cruel mercenaries of every kind, Miss Temple, Chang, and the Doctor are soon propelled into a quest that will draw them one by one into a realm of reckless, lawless terror. At every turn lies another enigma—and the stench of indigo clay, the raw material used to enslave even the most steadfast soul. Now they alone stand in the path of a diabolical conspiracy involving the books—one that will mean an alarming new world where once-free-roaming minds are wiped completely clean... if they live long enough. As Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Dr. Svenson uncover the devilish schemes of their deadly enemies, the terrifying secrets contained in The Dark Volume will be revealed one by one. For the blue glass is more lethal than they’d ever imagined—and those who possess it, as well as those who pursue it, are playing with fire.

Pulsing with electrifying suspense, this uniquely thrilling feat of the imagination will grip readers in its dark thrall long after the final page is devoured.

About this title

Review:

Acclaim for The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters:

Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven (Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth)

A page-turner, a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying (Giles Foden Guardian)

An erotically charged, rip-roaring adventure (Daily Mail)

Extraordinary. A feat of literary imagination. I cannot recall ever having read a novel comprising so much breaking and entering, spying through keyholes, jumping over walls, hiding in shadows and listening out for footsteps, nor one with so many miraculous escapes (Daily Telegraph)

Think of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: its lurid plots, its murky pea-soupers. Now, apply the production values of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, commission a re-write by the Marquis de Sade . . . A ripping yarn (The London Paper)

About the Author:

Playwright Gordon Dahlquist was born in the Pacific Northwest and lives in New York City. He is the author of the international bestseller The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0385340362
• ISBN 13: 9780385340366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 508