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The Chemickal Marriage
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The adventure continues in G.W. Dahlquist's The Chemickal Marriage the follow up to the popular The Glass Book of Dream Eaters and The Dark Volume.
Miss Temple young wealthy and far away from home never wanted to be a heroine. Yet her fianc is dead (admittedly by her own hand) her companions slain and her nemesis the terrifyingly wicked Contessa Lacquer-Sforza escaped. It falls on her tiny shoulders to destroy a deadly cabal whose alchemy threatens to enslave the world. Miss Temple plots her revenge.
But Dr Svenson and Cardinal Chang are alive barely - their bodies corrupted by the poisonous blue glass. Wounded and outnumbered Miss Temple Dr Svenson and Cardinal Chang pursue their enemies through city slums and glittering palaces as they fight to prevent the cabal's crushing dominion and unholy marriage between man and machine.
Dahlquist's rip-roaring adventure sees an assassin an heiress and a surgeon battle against the world's most unholy evil in their final quest.
'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones they need seek no further . . . an epic which...will only grow in popularity over the years [thanks to] its virtues hi-jinks horror decadence and derring-do' Stuart Kelly Scotsman
'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse author of Labyrinth on The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
G. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. This is his third novel. Originally from the Pacific Northwest he now lives in New York.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
530
Release Date:
2013-01-31
Publication Date:
2013-01-31
Publisher:
Penguin
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0670921661
ISBN13:
9780670921669
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
625 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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Very good
Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.
€12,49