With old loyalties tested by new and unlikely alliances, Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang must call on every reserve of courage to face a new and desperate struggle - after all, the integrity of their very minds is at risk. From palace intrigue and a city in turmoil to wolf-haunted mountains, underground tunnels and a suspicious hidden factory, they must overcome war and heartache to battle old enemies and a host of new villains, all hoping to seize for themselves the power of the blue glass books. Now one glass book in particular drives them all, its deadly contents the key to controlling the secrets of the blue glass, or destroying it forever.
When G. W. Dahlquist fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. This is his second novel.
Title: The Dark Volume
Author: Dahlquist, G.W.
ISBN: 9780670916535
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2008-05-01
Number of Pages: 528
Weight: 0.9211 kg
Acclaim for The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters:
Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven -- Kate Mosse, author of * Labyrinth *
A page-turner, a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying -- Giles Foden * Guardian *
An erotically charged, rip-roaring adventure * Daily Mail *
Extraordinary. A feat of literary imagination. I cannot recall ever having read a novel comprising so much breaking and entering, spying through keyholes, jumping over walls, hiding in shadows and listening out for footsteps, nor one with so many miraculous escapes * Daily Telegraph *
Think of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: its lurid plots, its murky pea-soupers. Now, apply the production values of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, commission a re-write by the Marquis de Sade . . . A ripping yarn * The London Paper *
Acclaim for The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters:
Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven -- Kate Mosse, author of * Labyrinth *
A page-turner, a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying -- Giles Foden * Guardian *
An erotically charged, rip-roaring adventure * Daily Mail *
Extraordinary. A feat of literary imagination. I cannot recall ever having read a novel comprising so much breaking and entering, spying through keyholes, jumping over walls, hiding in shadows and listening out for footsteps, nor one with so many miraculous escapes * Daily Telegraph *
Think of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: its lurid plots, its murky pea-soupers. Now, apply the production values of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, commission a re-write by the Marquis de Sade . . . A ripping yarn * The London Paper *
