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- Engelsk
- 240 sider
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A literary murder mystery about the shady side of the antiquities trade, ancient philosophy, and tech's utopian promises. Marcus Sinclair is a history teacher whose life is stuck in neutral when he inherits a papyrus scroll from his antiquarian uncle. The mysterious scroll might contain a lost masterpiece from ancient Rome or perhaps an ancient recipe for personal tranquility, but it's unreadable unless Marcus can figure out a way to unroll the scroll without destroying it. His quest takes him to Naples, where he befriends a Google software engineer days before the man is found dead. Marcus is interviewed by an investigative journalist, Kristi Grainger, and they find themselves on parallel paths leading to a Neapolitan trafficker in antiquities, a tech mogul obsessed with the distant past, and a clutch of academics searching for the lost library of Herculaneum. In a seaside city that is by turns lush and lethal, Marcus must confront the unraveling of more than a scroll. This novel is inspired by a real place -- the Villa dei Papri, the only library from antiquity to have survived -- and coincides with the Vesuvius Challenge, a real-life international competition to decipher Herculaneum scrolls.
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- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal240
- Udgivelsesdato06-05-2025
- ISBN139781770418400
- Forlag ECW Press
- FormatPaperback
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10 cm
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