- Fiction, Wizards, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, crime
My name is Peter Grant, and I'm a keeper of the secret flame. Truth be told, there's a lot I still don't know. My superior Nightingale is trying to teach me proper schooling for a magician's apprentice. But even he doesn't have all the answers. A mutilated body in Crawley means another murderer is on the loose. But then I get word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle. Just the typical day for a magician constable.
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Contemporary, classical in form, cool and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ben Aaronovitch
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 357
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited, WF Howes Ltd
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575132498
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“At twenty-three minutes past eleven Robert Weil drove his 53 registered Volvo V70 across the bridge that links Pease Pottage, the improbably named English village, with Pease Pottage, the motorway service station.”
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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