The Graveyard Game
Mendoza is a Preserver for The Dr. Zeus Company, living in the past to collect species for the future. But when she kills six people in California in 1863, The Company makes her disappear.Joseph, a senior Preserver, loves Mendoza as the daughter he never had. Drunk on chocolate and fueled by...
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Mendoza is a Preserver for The Dr. Zeus Company, living in the past to collect species for the future. But when she kills six people in California in 1863, The Company makes her disappear.Joseph, a senior Preserver, loves Mendoza as the daughter he never had. Drunk on chocolate and fueled by rage, he's determined to find her however long it takes. Being an indestructible, immortal cyborg gives him an unlimited well of patience.What begins as a rescue mission uncovers a conspiracy stretching across fifty centuries of recorded history. Behind it lie genocide, graveyards filled with Company agents, and the roots of the ominous Silence that falls across the world in 2355.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780765311849 (0765311844)
Publish date: February 1st 2005
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 298
Edition language: English
Series: The Company -6 (#4)
The Graveyard Game (The Company #4) by Kage Baker The Graveyard Game is easily my favourite Company series book to date. The story starts with Literature Specialist Lewis’s reaction to Mendoza’s mysterious time-bending visitation from the last book, Mendoza in Hollywood. Lewis’s immediate reaction...
The 'Company' stories all deal with the idea that, in the 24th century, a company learns how to send people back in time. To creat agents for itself, it takes children of a part time period and turns them into immortal cyborgs, who work for them on missions such as saving 'lost' artworks and extinct...
The third and fourth books in Baker's light and entertaining Company series follow the further adventures of immortal botanist Mendoza. Located in the Los Angeles/Hollywood area, Baker lovingly recreates Civil War era California in Mendoza in Hollywood, where Joseph and his protege are reunited at a...
February 21, 2004 Love me some Kage Baker. Time travel, movies, cyborgs, and a sense of humor. As the Company series goes on it just gets more and more fun.***January 21, 2015I'm going to miss Ms. Baker a great deal. Her writing was just the purest kind of pleasure I know.This volume focuses on Jo...
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