by Ross King · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749395858
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The second novel by Ross King is an elaborate historical mystery. Responding to a cryptic summons to a remote country house, London bookseller Isaac Inchbold finds himself responsible for restoring a magnificent library pillaged during the English Civil War. In the process, he slips from the surface of 1660s London into an underworld of spies, smugglers, ciphers, and forgeries. As he assembles the fragments of a complex historical mystery, Inchbold learns how Sir Ambrose Plessington, founder of the library, escaped from Bohemia on the eve of the Thirty Years' War with plunder from the Imperial Library. His hunt for a lost Hermetic text casts him into an elaborate intrigue where his fortunes hang on the discovery of a missing manuscript.
