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John Gower #2
William Morrow
February 2016
On Sale: February 9, 2016
Featuring: John Gower
420 pages
ISBN: 0062356461
EAN: 9780062356468
Kindle: B00M714L2S
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The author of the acclaimed historical thriller A
Burnable Book once again brings medieval London
alive in all its color and detail in a riveting novel that
imagines the beginnings of gun violence in the Western
world. London, 1386: A mass murder has taken place within the city
walls. Sixteen corpses have been dumped where they are
sure to be found, bearing wounds like none seen before. John
Gower, middling poet and expert trader in secrets, is
summoned to investigate the killings even as the ruthless
mayor of London seeks to thwart an open inquiry for reasons
unknown. Gower learns that the men have fallen victim
to handgonnes, new and terrifying weapons that
threaten to change the future of war. Challenged by
deception and treachery on all sides, Gower struggles
against his failing vision even as his inquiries take him
from the City's labyrinthine slums to the port of Calais to
the forests of Kent, where his friend Geoffrey Chaucer
serves as justice of the peace. As Gower strives to discover
the source of the new guns and the identity of those who
wielded them, he must risk everything to reveal the truth -
and prevent a more devastating massacre on London's crowded
streets ...
John Gower
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