Bibliograph

The invention of fire, a novel, Bruce Holsinger

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The invention of fire, a novel, Bruce Holsinger

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The invention of fire

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

906029180

Responsibility statement

Bruce Holsinger

Sub title

a novel

Summary

The author of the acclaimed medieval mystery A Burnable BookLondon, 1386.handgonnes, new and terrifying weapons that threaten to change the future of war.Challenged by deception and treachery on all sides, Gower struggles against his failing vision even as his inquiries take him from the city's labyrinthine slums to the port of Calais to the forests of Kent, where his friend Geoffrey Chaucer serves as justice of the peace. As Gower strives to discover the source of the new guns and the identity of those who wielded them, he must risk everything to reveal the truth--and prevent a more devastating massacre on London's crowded streets. . .

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