The last bookaneer
Pearl, Matthew2015
Book
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's greatest masterpiece. 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. 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.
Main title:
The last bookaneer / Matthew Pearl.
Author:
Pearl, Matthew, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Harvill Secker, 2015.London : Harvill Secker, 2015.
Collation:
389 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781846556197 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6GEN
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1750148