The rise and fall of D.O.D.O.: a novel

✍ Scribed by Neal Stephenson;Nicole Galland

• Book ID: 100637496
• Publisher: HarperCollins; William Morrow
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 448 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, NY
• ISBN: 006269586X

✦ Synopsis

From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.

When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must sign a nondisclosure agreement in return for the rather large sum of money.

Tristan needs Mel to translate some very old documents, which, if authentic, are earth-shattering. They prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for centuries. But the arrival of the...

✦ Subjects

Officiers de renseignements -- Romans, nouvelles, etc