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ONE THING ANY LIBRARY WILL TELL YOU: THE TRUST IS MUCH STRANGER THAN FICTION... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant, Kai, have been sent to an alternate London. Their mission: Retrieve a particularly dangerous book. The problem: By the time they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions are prepared to fight to the death to find the tome before Irene and Kai do, a problem compounded by the fact that this world is chaos infested--the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic to run rampant. To make matters worse, Kai is hiding something--secrets that could be just as volatile as the chaos-filled world itself. Now Irene is caught in a puzzling web of deadly danger, conflicting clues, and sinister secret societies. And failure is not an option--becuase it isn't just Irene's reputation at stake; it's the nature of reality itself... This description comes from the publisher.
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Classical in form, grave, unpretentious and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Genevieve Cogman
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- imusti, ROC, Turtleback
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781713518600
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