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The Kingdom of Bones

Stephen Gallagher author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Ebury Publishing

Published:25th Sep '17

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It was my friend, Bram Stoker, who told me of the legend of the Wanderer a man who made a bargain with the devil himself, trading his soul for forbidden knowledge and eternal life.

Once I would have dismissed such tales as mere fancy but I knew what I had seen. And there is no mind so open as that of desperate man.

A dark Gothic Victorian thriller, The Kingdom of Bones unfolds in a twilight world of music halls, boxing booths, and travelling theatrical shows; and pits a formidable Pinkerton detective against a man who fears more than justice.

Only bad thing about his books is that they eventually end. Brilliant. * Jonny Lee Miller *
Vividly set in England and America during the booming industrial era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this stylish thriller conjures a perfect demon to symbolize the age and its appetites... * The New York Times *
From its attention-grabbing opening, this period thriller moves back and forth in time to tell a compelling story of a man battling against what he believes to be demonic forces … [Gallagher] is brilliantly successful at evoking the shifting, transient world of travelling theatres and cheap carnivals that provide the backdrop to his twisting tale * Sunday Times *
If thriller-reading were a sin, Stephen Gallagher would be responsible for my ultimate damnation. * Dean R. Koontz *

ISBN: 9781785037160

Dimensions: 198mm x 126mm x 28mm

Weight: 313g

464 pages