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Last bookaneer

ID 285901
Slug last-bookaneer
Contributors
Annotation
Description <p><b>'An ingenious thriller' (<i>Sunday Times</i>) from the author of <i>The Dante Club</i></b></p><p>On the island of Samoa, in a house perched on a cliff beneath a smouldering volcano, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labours over a new novel. It is rumoured that this may be the author of <i>Treasure Island</i>’s greatest masterpiece. </p><p>On the other side of the world this news fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, literary pirates who steal the latest manuscripts by famous writers to smuggle them to a hungry public. But a changing world means the bookaneers will soon become extinct. </p><p>Two adversaries set out for the south Pacific: Pen Davenport, a tortured criminal genius haunted by his past and Belial, his nemesis. Both dream of fortune and immortality with this last and most incredible heist.</p><p><i>The Last Bookaneer</i> thrillingly depicts the lost world of these doomed outlaws, a tropical island with a violent destiny, a brewing colonial war and a reclusive genius directing events from high in his mountain compound.</p>
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Subjects
300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
NSTC
Publisher Vintage UK
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 400
Duration
Publication date first 2016-04-14
Publication date latest 2016-04-14
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Editions
  • ISBN: 9780099572138 (BC)

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