City of Desolation: The Balance of Love and Despair - Softcover

Ward, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552070824 ISBN 13: 9781552070826

Publisher: Studio 9 Books, 2005

Synopsis

Solving the Secret of the Alchemist led Jake, Helen and her father Gerald to the discovery of the Stone of Sorrow and a spellbinding and shocking climax in the Underground Palace in Istanbul. Now blasted into beyond by those terrifying events, they each find themselves alone in a strange land with no clear memory of what has gone before.

As the fabric of reality begins to unravel and amazing events unfold, each must travel a lone path: yet all roads lead, it seems, to the City of Desolation, where the end-game is the cosmic struggle between Good and Evil.

About this title

Synopsis:

The conclusion of this fabulously successful trilogy - translated into 11 languages already - is a riveting page-turner mixing fantasy, literature and history into an aromatic, gripping story that cannot be put down. Jake, a teenager from Glasgow, and Helen, from Geneva, confront, through an adventure tale that started at a literary festival in Florence and ends, like Orpheus, with an escape from hell, discover friendship and love through an amazing array of characters like Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Virgil, Michael Scot and others. Along this eminently readable way the reader finds unusual and stirring events like metempsycosis, face-shifting, and ships that sail the streets of Hades on wheels. A prequel is planned for 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Studio 9 Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1552070824
• ISBN 13: 9781552070826
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Davies Robert
• Illustrator: Pineaux Severine