The Philosopher's Apprentice

A brilliant philosopher with a talent for self-destruction, Mason Ambrose gratefully accepts an offer no starving ethicist could refuse. He must travel to a private tropical island and tutor Londa Sabacthani, a beautiful, brilliant adolescent who has lost both her memory and her moral sense in a freak accident. Londa's soul is an empty vessel--and Mason's job will be to fill it.

But all is not as it seems on Isla de Sangre. Londa's reclusive mother is secretly sheltering a second child whose conscience is a blank slate. Even as the mystery deepens, Mason confronts a frightening question: What will happen when Londa, her head crammed with lofty ideals and her bank account filled to bursting, ventures out to remake our fallen world in her own image?

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 02/03/2009
ISBN: 9780061351457
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.44w x 1.11d
Award: John W. Campbell Memorial Award - Third Place