Book of Secrets
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
IT'LL TAKE MORE THAN ANGELS AND DEMONS TO STOP HIM.
Reporter Spencer Finch is a journalist embroiled in the hunt for a missing book, encountering along the way cat burglars and mobsters, hackers and mysterious monks. At the same time, he's trying to make sense of the legacy left him by his late grandfather, a chest of what appear to be pulp magazines from the golden age of fantasy fiction. Following his nose, Finch gradually uncovers a mystery involving a lost Greek play, secret societies, generations of masked vigilantes - and an entire hidden history of mankind. It's like The Da Vinci Code retold by the Coen brothers in this blockbuster blur.
File Under: Urban Fantasy [ Conspiracy! | Angelic Mysteries | Pulp Fiction | Blow Your Mind ]
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Author Roberson delves into territory previously explored by Kim Newman and Philip Jose Farmer in this tale of legacy heroism and secret history. Reporter and former cat-burglar Spencer Finch is working on what he hopes will be a major expos revealing the perfidy of wealthy businessman J. Nathan Pierce, when he learns that his lead, struggling P.I. David Stiles, has been murdered. The death of Richmond Taylor, Finch's emotionally distant grandfather, seems unrelated; but as Finch slowly discovers, his grandfather harbored a fascination with a lineage of heroes, using variants of the name Black Hand. Both the Black Hand lineage and a mysterious book, stolen from Pierce, are rooted in events dating back to the days following the Biblical Creation. These events pit the reporter against two world-spanning conspiracies. Though written competently, Roberson's latest feels underdeveloped and unfinished, more like a prelude to the real story.
