Ex-Libris

A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe. Charged with the task of restoring a magnificent library destroyed by the war, Inchbold moves between Prague and the Tower Bridge in London, his fortunes--and his life--hanging on his ability to recover a missing manuscript. Yet the lost volume is not what it seems, and his search is part of a treacherous game of underworld spies and smugglers, ciphers, and forgeries. Inchbold's adventure is compelling from beginning to end as Ross King vividly recreates the turmoil of Europe in the seventeenth century--the sacks of great cities; Raleigh's final voyage; the quest for occult knowledge; and a watery escape from three mysterious horsemen.

A Book Sense 76 pick

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 05/28/2002
ISBN: 9780142000809
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.28w x 0.73d

Review Citations: BookPage 06/01/2002 pg. 25
Booksense '76 Sep/Oct 2002 09/01/2002 pg. 1