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Strindberg's Star

Strindberg's Star

Jan Wallentin

9781848879881

Corvus


Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback

452 pages

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A secret city and a one-hundred-year-old murder reveal a deadly conspiracy of fantastic proportions: Strindberg's Star will chill your bones in the summer's heat...Taklamakan desert, 1895 - A new Pompeii has come to light and, with it, two remarkable artefacts, found in a hidden burial chamber. A metal ankh and star - covered in strange inscriptions, feather-light and cool to the touch. Svalbard, 1897 - On the skerried islands of Svalbard, a hydrogen balloon is readied for a polar voyage. Publicly, it is a patriotic attempt to put Sweden in the lead of the race to the North Pole. Privately, the three men on board have another objective. But S. A Andree, Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg will never be seen alive again. Falun, Sweden, 2011 - 260 meters under the earth, in a long-flooded mineshaft, a diver's torchbeam plays over a mouldering corpse with a fist-sized hole in its forehead. Skeletal fingers clutch a metal amulet. It is the key to the annals of a secret history so deeply buried that the few who knew of it though it lost forever. Until now...It is suitable for readers of Dan Brown and Simon Toyne's Sanctum .

By:   Jan Wallentin
Imprint:   Corvus
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Export and Airside ed
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 234mm,  Spine: 156mm
ISBN:  

9781848879881


ISBN 10:   1848879881
Pages:   452
Publication Date:   July 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock at Abbey's Bookshop
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JAN WALLENTIN is a journalist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Strindberg's Star is his first novel.


* 'This breathtaking debut novel, lavish with historic detail and colorful panorama, brilliantly evokes the mysterious, underwater, middle-earth worlds of Jules Verne, interwoven with the pulse-pounding, countdown techno-thrillers of James Bond.' - Katherine Neville, Author of The Eight

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