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Der 77. Grad

Bill Napier

Paperback | Pages: 414 pages

Rating: 3.28 | 705 Users | 86 Reviews

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Title	:	Der 77. Grad
Author	:	Bill Napier
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 414 pages
Published	:	2007 by Knaur-Taschenbuch-Verl (first published February 2nd 2004)
Categories	:	Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Adventure. Historical. Historical Fiction

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As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400 year old journal and twelve hours later he is brutally murdered, Harry's peace of mind is shattered. What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life or death? Why is someone prepared to pay Harry a fortune to steal it? He turns to marine historian Zola Khan to uncover the mysteries. The trail of the journal leads him into a world of deadly Elizabethan conspiracies, and the thread of history takes him through a thousand years of religious intrigue back to the blood-soaked Crusades. And he finally learns that at stake are millions of dollars and a plan to trigger nothing less than war...

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Original Title:	Splintered Icon
ISBN:	3426633345 (ISBN13: 9783426633342)
Edition Language:	German
Characters:	Harry Blake, Zola Khan

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Ratings: 3.28 From 705 Users | 86 Reviews

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Very entertaining. An easy read. I liked the fact that there were two stories. One the current day mystery of everyone trying to find and steal the icon and the story enfolding with the decoding of the diary

Antiquarian bookseller Harry Blake is hired to appraise a four-hundred-year-old journal bequeathed to a wealthy landowner. At first, it appears to be only the curiously coded diary of a young cabin boy aboard Sir Walter Raleigh's 1585 expedition. But when Harry's client is murdered and his own life is threatened, he realizes that he's opened the door to a mystery worth killing for

This book is a thriller and it is two thrillers in one. There are two stories going on. On the one hand an antiquarian book dealer is hired to translate a manuscript that dates from the sixteenth century and is written in a kind of shorthand from that time. The man who hired him is murdered soon thereafter and the book seller finds himself being offered huge amounts of money for the manuscript and when he declines he finds himself facing violence. Then there is the other story. It is the story

We all know books are geeky- and that I'm a geek, and that well, geeks are... safe, normal, (pause) you know: geeky. Harry Blake is a geek, too, but I think he got a bit of the Indiana Jones gene. See, Harry deals in books, antique books. His idea of a vacation would be traveling to some exotic location only to lock himself in the cellar of an old home and look at dusty maps. Harry doesn't even have to travel far for his latest adventure to start. Sir Toby is pretty local, and he's called Harry

Enjoyable read. It was a race to the finish to find the True Cross, or a piece of the True Cross. I liked going back in time with the journal, instead of it being all in present day. It gave it character.

Hmmmm... didn't read it that long ago and I can't remember a thing about it... that cannot be good...I seem to remember enjoying thebook, as I have with Napiers other works... Nemesis and The Lure... but for the life of me I am lost now.Oh... got it now... manuscript... Virginia... secrets... Catholicism... restoration... murders... the usual sort of tripe I like.

By page 27 there have been two attempts on Henry Blake's life -- people who conveniently disappeared. The important people are James Ogilvie, Debbie Tebbit (who is 19) Sir Toby Tebbit, and Winston Sinclair's journal about a Russian icon lost in Jamaica for centuries. Conveniently, Debbie's father dies, she is competent, Harry also has a competent, reliable friend, Zola and many copies of the journal. Roaming all over Europe, there are a few minor characters (i.e. Dalton) but otherwise few