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Lädt ... Disturbiavon Christopher Fowler
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An assignment brings Vincent Reynolds, permanent student and budding young writer of 'New London Journalism', into the world of Sebastian Wells, charming and manipulative scion of an aristocratic London family. This unlikely friendship draws our working-class hero into contact with the Prometheus League. Under the guise of a Victorian gaming society it operates extremist and covert activities of a sinister nature. When Vincent threatens to expose Sebastian, he is suddenly thrown into a game for life or death: ten deadly challenges, questions that lead him and a motley crew of insomniacs, misfits and street people on a wild goose chase through the sleeping giant of London town, from dusk to dawn... Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I chose this quotation because I found it funny, but it isn't exactly representative of a book that is a fast-paced thriller, not a comedy. Vincent Reynolds finds himself running for his life in a treasure hunt across night time London, trying to solve ten cryptic clues before morning without getting too many people killed along the way. But have the arrogant and murderous upper class members of the League of Prometheus who set the challenge really gone to all that trouble just because of their love of games-playing? I loved this book, and found the twists and turns of the plot towards the ending truly surprising. My only criticism would be that the book seemed to end a bit abruptly.
Unfortunately I don't know London's geography and history well enough to solve the clues myself; I had vague ideas about a few of them, but not enough to have found the envelope containing the next clue. ( )