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A Rare Book Mystery
Random House, Inc.
September 2014
On Sale: August 26, 2014
Featuring: Penelope Wilkes; Adrian Hart; Michael Bevan
246 pages
ISBN: 080417928X
EAN: 9780804179287
Kindle: B00IQROTNS
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Michael Bevan is barely scraping by with his used
bookstore
and rare book collection when he discovers a timeworn
journal that may change everything. Dating back to 1768,
the
tattered diary appears to be a chronicle kept during the
first of legendary seafarer Captain James Cook’s three
epic
voyages through the Pacific islands. If it’s as valuable
as
Mike thinks it is, its sale may just bring enough to keep
his faltering used bookstore afloat for another year.
Then he meets a pair of London dealers with startling
news:
Adrian Hart and Penelope Wilkes claim to possess the
journal
of Cook’s second voyage. Is it possible a third diary
exists? One which might detail Cook’s explosive final
voyage—and his death at the hands of native Hawaiians?
Together, all three would be the holy grail of Pacific
exploration. But before Mike can act, the two journals are
stolen.
Chasing them down will sweep Michael, Adrian, and Penelope
across the globe—past a dead body or two—and into a very
sinister slice of paradise. High in the Southern Alps of
New
Zealand, in a remote and secretive Maori compound, a
secret
rests in the hands in of a man daring enough to rewrite
history . . . and desperate enough to kill.
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