by Louis Bayard
This book kept me on my toes. I would start to think it was one thing and then became another. The ending was a complete surprise and made the book all the more fun. I will surely go back and reread some day.
Synopsis“A shared quest and a mysterious cabal, four centuries apart . . .When Henry Cavendish attends the funeral of an old friend, the last thing he expects is to be given a business proposition. A handsome sum to retrieve a document that was in his friend’s possession when he died ; a letter from...
It was difficult to believe that Alonzo Wax was dead. He was a collector extraordinaire, books, papers, antiquities. He was also a tornado of a personality, who seemed rather an unlikely suicide. His friend, Elizabethan scholar Henry Cavendish, is surprised to learn that he has been named executor o...
In 16th century England, a group of noted Elizabethan scholars gathered in secret to discuss potentially heretical ideas; this group is known to modern historians as the “School of Night.” 400 years later, Henry Cavendish and his friend Alonzo Wax sought to create such a philosophical school of thei...
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