
The Great Game
Lavie Tidhar(Author)
Angry Robot (Publisher)
Published on 4. October 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-85766-603-1 (ISBN)
Description
When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London, it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer - and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain. Fresh from liberating a strange alien object in Abyssinia - which might just be the mythical Ark of the Covenant - young Lucy Westerna, Holmes' protege, must follow her own path to the truth while, on the other side of the world, a young Harry Houdini must face his greatest feat of escape - death itself.
As their paths converge the body count mounts up, the entire world is under threat, and in a foreboding castle in the mountains of Transylvania a mysterious old man weaves a spider's web of secrets and lies.
Airship battles, Frankenstein monsters, alien tripods and death-defying acts: The Great Game is a cranked-up steampunk thriller in which nothing is certain - not even death.
And furthermore... venture deeper into the Lost Files of the Bookman Histories, as Professor Tidhar explores the "Dynamics of an Asteroid"!
File Under: Steampunk [ End Of Days | Only The Beginning | The Ark | Insane Thrills ]
As their paths converge the body count mounts up, the entire world is under threat, and in a foreboding castle in the mountains of Transylvania a mysterious old man weaves a spider's web of secrets and lies.
Airship battles, Frankenstein monsters, alien tripods and death-defying acts: The Great Game is a cranked-up steampunk thriller in which nothing is certain - not even death.
And furthermore... venture deeper into the Lost Files of the Bookman Histories, as Professor Tidhar explores the "Dynamics of an Asteroid"!
File Under: Steampunk [ End Of Days | Only The Beginning | The Ark | Insane Thrills ]
Reviews / Votes
"Achieves moments of surprising depth and beauty, with real insights into human history and psychology as well as the immense and varied wealth of writing in the last half of the 19th century. It's a virtuoso performance."- Locus
"A clever, superior thriller, inventive and entertaining."
- SFX
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Watkins Media Limited
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
345 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85766-603-1 (9780857666031)
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Person
Lavie Tidhar is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning A Man Lies Dreaming, the World Fantasy Award winning Osama and of the critically-acclaimed The Violent Century. He has a British Fantasy Award for Best Novella for Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God.
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Author hometown: London, UK
lavietidhar.wordpress.com
twitter.com/LavieTidhar
Author hometown: London, UK