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A shared quest and a mysterious cabal, four centuries apart . . .
When Henry Cavendish attends the funeral of an old friend, the last thing he expects is to be given a business proposition. A handsome sum to retrieve a document that was in his friend's possession when he died - a letter from Sir Walter Ralegh. Henry accepts the challenge, despite severe misgivings about his sinister new employer.
Four centuries earlier, in Elizabethan England, another quest is playing out. Thomas Harriot, once a member of the mysterious School of Night, a group whose members included the toast of Elizabethan society, has shut himself off from the world. Working day and night, he devotes himself secretly to his experiments.
As both searches deepen, the two men realise that there are forces at work against them. Harriot's work is threatened by discovery and Henry's search becomes a deadly one, when someone close to him dies in mysterious circumstances. The School of Night is the story of a quest that spans centuries, of alliances forged in unexpected circumstances and of men who will stop at nothing to get what they want.
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Really outstanding crime fiction is rare so it's a joy to see Louis Bayard pull off this coup . . . Brilliantly plotted and completely absorbing, ending with the kind of shock that few novelists are able to deliver (Sunday Times)
Vigorous, well imagined and thoroughly entertaining. Louis Bayard can write up a storm (Literary Review)
One of the coolest books of the year (James Frey)
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Really outstanding crime fiction is rare so it's a joy to see Louis Bayard pull off this coup . . . Brilliantly plotted and completely absorbing, ending with the kind of shock that few novelists are able to deliver (Sunday Times)
Vigorous, well imagined and thoroughly entertaining. Louis Bayard can write up a storm (Literary Review)
One of the coolest books of the year (James Frey)
This literary thriller with an historical twist will appeal to readers of The Da Vinci Code and The Shadow of the Wind
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- PublisherJohn Murray
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1848542194
- ISBN 13 9781848542198
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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