Elaine is an orphan girl who has grown up in a world where magical ability brings power. Her limited talent was enough to ensure a magical training but shes very inexperienced and was lucky to get a position working in the Great Library. Now, the Grand Sorcerer the most powerful magician of them all
The bookworm: a novel
โ Scribed by Mitch Silver
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Edition
- First Pegasus books edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A stunning and surprising new thriller, Mitch Silver's latest novel takes readers from a secret operation during World War II--with appearances by Noel Coward and Winston Churchill--to present day London and Moscow, where Lara Klimt, "the Bookworm," must employ all her skills to prevent an international conspiracy.
Why did Hitler chose not to invade England when he had the chance?
Europe, 1940: It's late summer and Belgium has been overrun by the German army. Posing as a friar, a British operative talks his way into the monastery at Villers-devant-Orval just before Nazi art thieves plan to sweep through the area and whisk everything of value back to Berlin. But the ersatz man of the cloth is no thief. Instead, that night he adds an old leather Bible to the monastery's library and then escapes.
London, 2017: A construction worker operating a backhoe makes a grisly discovery--a skeletal arm-bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist....
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