- The Folly, magic, police, mystery
The second novel in Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series takes the police constable cum apprentice magician into Soho and the world of jazz, where somebody seems to feed of the musician's vibes, while a black magician is expanding his territority.
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Classical in form, cool, contemporary and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ben Aaronovitch
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 364
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, WF Howes Ltd
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English, French, German
- ISBN
- 9781625676160
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“It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.”
Ben Aaronovitch was born in 1964. He had parents, some brothers, some sisters and a dog named after a Russian cosmonaut. He also had the kind of dull childhood that drives a person to drink, radical politics or science fiction. Discovering in his early twenties that he had precisely one talent, he took up screenwriting at which he was an overnight success. He wrote for Doctor Who, Casualty and the world’s cheapest ever SF soap opera Jupiter Moon. He then wrote for Virgin’s New Adventures until they pulped all his books. Then Ben entered a dark time illuminated only by an episode of Dark Knight, a book for Big Finish and the highly acclaimed but not-very-well-paying Blake’s 7 Audio dramas. Tr
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