Hang on to the End for a Wild Ride with Michael Gruber

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	• The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel Michael Gruber Harper Paperbacks, 2008 - 496 pages average customer review:based on 89 reviews view larger image
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Hang on to the End for a Wild Ride with Michael Gruber

If you're hoping for another DaVinci Code, this won't be the Holy Grail for you, but you won't be able to resist the power and humor of the narration in this book! The narrator is an attorney, and with apologies to any attorneys who will read this review, you will no doubt recognize yourself or a colleague or two here. At the very least, you'll easily follow his logic and motivation and perhaps stay one step ahead of the rest of us, who after thinking they've found in him some redeeming quality, mostly just want to smack him! As I said, my apology.... That repeated, the plot involves the discovery of a clue to a lost manuscript by Shakespeare, wrapped in murder, but possibly cloaked in a brilliant hoax. Lots of red herrings here. Lots of air and shadows too. Gruber takes the reader from the streets of New York to the inner sanctums of British and American academics who have their own hierarchies and petty intrigues. The man has certainly done his historical homework and you'll be the wiser for it. All of the characters are complex and memorable but have to watch their backs right up to to the very last sentence of the very last page. This one is a great summer read that you're sure to share with friends.

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A fire destroys a New York City rare bookstore?and reveals clues to a treasure worth killing for. . . . A disgraced scholar is found tortured to death. . . . And those pursuing the most valuable literary find in history are about to cross from the harmless mundane into inescapable nightmare.

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Tropic of Night comes a breathtaking thriller that twists, shocks, and surprises at every turn as it crisscrosses centuries, from the glaring violence of today into the dark shadows of truth and lies surrounding the greatest writer the world has ever known.

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