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Death and the Devil
Contributor(s): Schatzing, Frank (Author)
ISBN: 006164661X     ISBN-13: 9780061646614
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
OUR PRICE:   $17.09  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2008
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Annotation: The author of the #1 international bestseller "The Swarm" returns with a gripping and historically rich thriller set in medieval Germany.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical - Medieval
- Fiction | Thrillers - Crime
- Fiction | Fantasy - Historical
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.5" W x 8" (0.74 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453)
- Cultural Region - Germany
 
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Publisher Description:

In the year 1260, a great cathedral, the most ambitious ecclesiastical building in all of Christendom, is rising high above the bustling city of Cologne under the supervision of the architect Gerhard Morart. Far below the soaring spires and flying buttresses, a bitter war rages between the archbishop and the city's ruling merchant families--a deadly conflict that claims Morart as the first of its many victims. But there is a witness to the murder of the unfortunate architect, pushed to his death from the cathedral's scaffolding. A cunning, street-smart, politically naive petty thief called Jacob the Fox has seen it all--and seeing has made him the target of a relentless and ruthlessly efficient assassin who's been stripped of his humanity by dark, hidden secrets. Ensnared in the strangling vines of a terrifying conspiracy, the Fox must now run for his life. But who--and what--is he running from?


Contributor Bio(s): Schatzing, Frank: -

Frank Schatzing is the author of the international bestseller The Swarm. A winner of the Köln Literatur Prize, the Corine Award, and the German Science Fiction Award, Schatzing lives and works in Cologne, Germany.