The Last Bookaneer Matthew Pearl

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The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl

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The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl

'An ingenious thriller' (Sunday Times) from the author of The Dante Club

A reclusive writer...A stolen manuscript...An adventure at the ends of the earth

On the island of Samoa, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labours over a new novel. It is rumoured that this may be the author of Treasure Island's greatest masterpiece.

On the other side of the world this news fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, literary pirates who steal the latest manuscripts by famous writers.

Two adversaries set out for the South Pacific: Pen Davenport, a tortured criminal genius haunted by his past and Belial, his nemesis. Both dream of fortune and immortality with what may be their last and most incredible heist.

The Last Bookaneer thrillingly depicts the lost world of these doomed outlaws, a tropical island with a violent destiny, a brewing colonial war and a reclusive genius directing events from high in his mountain compound.

The Last Bookaneer Reviews

An ingenious thriller * Sunday Times *
Masterly story-telling * Daily Mail *
A mixture of a classic heist and literary history lesson; the whole Victorian world of letters is cleverly and wittily reimagined -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
A historical jigsaw puzzle of literary larceny, deception, and derring-do...richly imagined * Boston Globe *
[Pearl's] clever final twist will surprise the general reader, and please Stevenson scholars -- Janette Currie * Independent on Sunday *

About Matthew Pearl

Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. His other books include The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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GOR007954807

ISBN 13

9780099572138

ISBN 10

0099572133

Title

The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl

Author

Matthew Pearl

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20160505

Number of pages

400

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N/A

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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins