Eric Siblin: The Fatal Scroll, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Fatal Scroll
- A Herculaneum Mystery
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- Publisher:
- ECW Press,Canada, 06/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781770418400
- Item number:
- 12080116
- Volume:
- 240 Pages
- Ausgabe:
- No Edition
- Weight:
- 195 g
- Format:
- 216 x 140 mm
- Thickness:
- 18 mm
- Release date:
- 12.6.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
"[Siblin] offers intrigue, brings history to life and skillfully weaves them into a compelling storyline." --- Edwards Book Club Reviews
A 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.
Biography
Eric Siblin ist ein preisgekrönter Journalist und Filmemacher aus Kanada. Er war Kritiker für Pop-Musik bei der Montreal Gazette, bevor er 2002 zum Fernsehen wechselte. Für seinen Dokumentarfilm "Word Slingers", der sich der kuriosen Welt der Scrabbel-Wettkämpfe widmet, erhielt er eine Auszeichung. Später ließ ihn sein geringer werdendes Interesse an Rockmusik und seine Enttäuschung über die sich zum Schlechteren verändernde Rock- & Pop-Kultur das Terrain zu wechseln. So fand er zur klassischen Musik, speziell zu Bach und seinem Meisterwerk.
