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English
Bantam
01 September 2010
One hundred and twenty years after Jack the Ripper, he has an apprentice to continue his work...

One hundred and twenty years after Jack the Ripper, he has an apprentice to continue his work...

In all his years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Pendragon has never seen a murder quite like this one.

It isn't the bizarre arrangement of the body, found in a London art gallery, that has Pendragon and his team reeling; it's the meticulous arrangement of an apple in the hole where the corpse's face used to be. The reference to surrealist painter Magritte is horrifyingly clear.

Twenty-four hours later, the police have a second grotesque killing on their hands. This time, the crime scene emulates a famous Dali painting, The Persistence of Memory. Someone is turning murder into an art form...

And it's not for the first time. More than a century earlier, the citizens of Whitechapel in London's East End were living in fear of another artist with a knife. Though Jack the Ripper was never caught, his teaching lives on.

Now, in the twenty-first century, Jack has a gifted and bloodthirsty apprentice...
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Imprint:   Bantam
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 233mm,  Width: 155mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   452g
ISBN:   9781863256902
ISBN 10:   1863256903
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Michael White is the author of a number of international bestsellers, both non-fiction and fiction. His novels EQUINOX, THE MEDICI SECRET and THE BORGIA RING were massive bestsellers around the world and were translated into 29 languages. Michael also writes under the pseudonym Sam Fisher. He lives in Sydney.

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