The Book Of Air And Shadows

Paperback

1st

First Person

Fiction

466

23

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Tap-tapping the keys and out come the words on this little screen, and who will read them I hardly know. I could be dead by the time anyone actually gets to read them, as dead as, say Tolstoy. Or Shakespeare... These are the words of Jake Mishkin, whose job as an intellectual property lawyer has put him at the centre of a deadly chase to find the world’s greatest treasure, Shakespeare’s last, lost play. In a frantic race from New York to England and Switzerland, Jake finds himself matching wits with a shadowy figure who seems to anticipate his every move. What at first seems like a thrilling puzzle waiting to be deciphered soon turns into a dangerous game in which no one - family, friends, lovers - is to be trusted. The Book of Air and Shadows is a modern thriller that moves deftly between the 21st and 17th centuries, brilliantly re-creating the time of Shakespeare and combining an ingenious conspiracy with a devastating portrait of a contemporary man on the brink of self-discovery...or self-destruction.

HarperCollins Publishers

9780007251919

2007-02-01

1

London

~$14.93

2025-06-01

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