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Dark Sonnet
Taschenbuch von Tom McCarthy
Sprache: Englisch

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The timeless battle between savage and sacred

Myles Dunn is certain of nothing except that he can never return to Oxford. Two years ago, as a much-admired Jesuit at the threshold of prestige and possibility, he made two irredeemable mistakes: he fell in love with the perfect woman and then killed her in a motorcycle accident. Shattered, he lost his faith, left the priesthood, abandoned his career and decamped to his birthplace in Colorado, where he's been working in a hardware store, languishing in ignominious limbo. When he receives a dire and dubious plea from his late beloved's brother Jeremy-a Jesuit and Myles' estranged friend-against nearly every impulse within him he reluctantly agrees to return to the place of his greatest joy and hardest fall. Jeremy, a genial but lackluster Oxford don, has stumbled upon a tattered and unpublished manuscript by Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Though the unfinished poem has been ignored for well over a century, Jeremy believes it contains a series of word puzzles indicating the location of the Cuxham Chalice, a legendary treasure dating to England's medieval past. Jeremy wants Myles' help to decode the enigmatic sonnet, locate the chalice and, above all, to keep Jeremy safe from an unknown and dangerous adversary. Upon Myles' arrival, Oxford is convulsing from the beheading of an innocent boy in an apparent act of Islamist terror and besieged by riots and violent reprisals.
Two days into his visit, as Myles faces the discomfiting realization that his friend has exaggerated the sonnet's importance and his personal peril, Jeremy disappears. Myles soon realizes that persons other than Jeremy and his good friend Eva Bashir, college librarian and a secularized Muslim, are interested in the sonnet and its riddles. Myles and Eva are equally stunned to discover a connection between the murderer terrorizing Oxford and the cryptic Hopkins sonnet-why he wrote it on his deathbed and the chilling parallels that it draws to the present-day slayings. Battling police resistance, a shadowy Vatican agent and their own personal demons, Myles and Eva must decode the cryptic verse before the killer strikes again. Their friend's life is not the only thing at stake. If they fail, the result will be upheaval and terror on a national and global scale.

A perplexing thriller that unnerves and inspires

Dark Sonnet is for any reader who likes:Labyrinthine mysteries that hinge on religious themes
The challenge of solving embedded codes and puzzles
Smart, multi-faceted layers of history, literature and word-craft
Stories that are relevant and timely
The timeless battle between savage and sacred

Myles Dunn is certain of nothing except that he can never return to Oxford. Two years ago, as a much-admired Jesuit at the threshold of prestige and possibility, he made two irredeemable mistakes: he fell in love with the perfect woman and then killed her in a motorcycle accident. Shattered, he lost his faith, left the priesthood, abandoned his career and decamped to his birthplace in Colorado, where he's been working in a hardware store, languishing in ignominious limbo. When he receives a dire and dubious plea from his late beloved's brother Jeremy-a Jesuit and Myles' estranged friend-against nearly every impulse within him he reluctantly agrees to return to the place of his greatest joy and hardest fall. Jeremy, a genial but lackluster Oxford don, has stumbled upon a tattered and unpublished manuscript by Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Though the unfinished poem has been ignored for well over a century, Jeremy believes it contains a series of word puzzles indicating the location of the Cuxham Chalice, a legendary treasure dating to England's medieval past. Jeremy wants Myles' help to decode the enigmatic sonnet, locate the chalice and, above all, to keep Jeremy safe from an unknown and dangerous adversary. Upon Myles' arrival, Oxford is convulsing from the beheading of an innocent boy in an apparent act of Islamist terror and besieged by riots and violent reprisals.
Two days into his visit, as Myles faces the discomfiting realization that his friend has exaggerated the sonnet's importance and his personal peril, Jeremy disappears. Myles soon realizes that persons other than Jeremy and his good friend Eva Bashir, college librarian and a secularized Muslim, are interested in the sonnet and its riddles. Myles and Eva are equally stunned to discover a connection between the murderer terrorizing Oxford and the cryptic Hopkins sonnet-why he wrote it on his deathbed and the chilling parallels that it draws to the present-day slayings. Battling police resistance, a shadowy Vatican agent and their own personal demons, Myles and Eva must decode the cryptic verse before the killer strikes again. Their friend's life is not the only thing at stake. If they fail, the result will be upheaval and terror on a national and global scale.

A perplexing thriller that unnerves and inspires

Dark Sonnet is for any reader who likes:Labyrinthine mysteries that hinge on religious themes
The challenge of solving embedded codes and puzzles
Smart, multi-faceted layers of history, literature and word-craft
Stories that are relevant and timely
Über den Autor
Tom is the literary half of the Dark Sonnet writing duo. After graduating from Georgetown, he spent two years at the University of Oxford, earning a Master's degree English, and later received a PhD from Harvard, where he was appointed Lecturer in History and Literature and won a teaching award and a Mellon Fellowship. For five years Tom wrote a monthly column in America magazine on the interplay between intellectual and spiritual life which formed the basis of the book, From This Clay. Other books include Relationships of Sympathy: The Writer and the Reader in British Romanticism. He teaches courses on urban consciousness, nineteenth-century poetry, Dickens, Modernism, political speech, borders, wilderness and death. He and his wife divide their time between Minneapolis and Tucson.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 366
ISBN-13: 9798986395210
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCarthy, Tom
Hersteller: De Profundis Books, LLC
Maße: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Tom McCarthy
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.11.2022
Gewicht: 0,46 kg
preigu-id: 125856326
Über den Autor
Tom is the literary half of the Dark Sonnet writing duo. After graduating from Georgetown, he spent two years at the University of Oxford, earning a Master's degree English, and later received a PhD from Harvard, where he was appointed Lecturer in History and Literature and won a teaching award and a Mellon Fellowship. For five years Tom wrote a monthly column in America magazine on the interplay between intellectual and spiritual life which formed the basis of the book, From This Clay. Other books include Relationships of Sympathy: The Writer and the Reader in British Romanticism. He teaches courses on urban consciousness, nineteenth-century poetry, Dickens, Modernism, political speech, borders, wilderness and death. He and his wife divide their time between Minneapolis and Tucson.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 366
ISBN-13: 9798986395210
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCarthy, Tom
Hersteller: De Profundis Books, LLC
Maße: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Tom McCarthy
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.11.2022
Gewicht: 0,46 kg
preigu-id: 125856326
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