Crypt Of Dark Secrets

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Author: dan simmons book title: drood year: 2009 isbn: 978-0-316-04068-6 on june 9, 1865, while traveling by train to london with his secret mistress, 53-year-old charles dickens — at the height Of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history Of the world — hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. did dickens begin living a Dark double life after the accident? were his nightly forays into the worst slums Of london and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use Of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean london mere research… or something more terrifying? just as he did in the terror, dan simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. based on the historical details Of charles dickens's life and narrated by wilkie collins (dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and salieri-style secret rival), drood explores the still-unsolved mysteries Of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to dickens's final, unfinished work: the mystery Of edwin drood. chilling, haunting, and utterly original, drood is dan simmons at his powerful best..
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Author: dan brown book title: angels & demons publisher: atria books year: 2003 isbn: 0743486226 an ancient secret brotherhood. a devastating new weapon Of destruction. an unthinkable target. when world-renowned harvard symbologist robert langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol—seared into the chest Of a murdered physicist—he discovers evidence Of the unimaginable: the resurgence Of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the illuminati… the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. the illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase Of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy—the catholic church. langdon’s worst fears are confirmed on the eve Of the vatican’s holy conclave, when a messenger Of the illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart Of vatican city. with the countdown under way, langdon jets to rome to join forces with vittoria vetra, a beautiful and mysterious italian scientist, to assist the vatican in a desperate bid for survival. embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth, langdon and vetra follow a 400-year-old trail Of ancient symbols that snakes across rome toward the long-forgotten illuminati lair… a clandestine location that contains the only hope for vatican salvation. an explosive international thriller, “angels & demons” careens from enlightening epiphanies to Dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war..
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Author: elisabeth kostova book title: the historian "to you, perceptive reader, i bequeath my history…" late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache Of yellowing letters. the letters are all addressed to "my dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed Of-a labyrinth where the Secrets Of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths Of history. the letters provide links to one Of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known-and to a centuries-long quest to find the source Of that darkness and wipe it out. it is a quest for the truth about vlad the impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis Of the legend Of dracula. generations Of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about vlad the impaler and dracula. now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself-to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. what does the legend Of vlad the impaler have to do with the modern world? is it possible that the dracula Of myth truly existed-and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? the answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty ivy league libraries to istanbul, budapest, and the depths Of eastern europe. in city after city, in monasteries and archives, in letters and in secret conversations, the horrible truth emerges about vlad the impaler's Dark reign-and about a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive down through the ages. parsing obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric Of medieval monastic traditions-and evading the unknown adversaries who will go to any lengths to conceal and protect vlad's ancient powers-one woman comes ever closer to the secret Of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition Of evil. elizabeth kostova's debut novel is an adventure Of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful-and utterly unforgettable. amazon.com review if your pulse flutters at the thought Of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page Of elizabeth kostova's long but beautifully structured thriller the historian. the story opens in amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache Of yellowed letters in her diplomat father's library. the pages Of the book are empty except for a woodcut Of a dragon. the letters are addressed to: "my dear and unfortunate successor." when the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to paul his certainty that dracula-vlad the impaler, an inventively cruel ruler Of wallachia in the mid-15th century-was still alive. the story turns out to concern our narrator directly because paul's collaborator in the search was a fellow student named helen rossi (the unacknowledged daughter Of his mentor) and our narrator's long-dead mother, about whom she knows almost nothing. and then her father, leaving just a note, disappears also. as well as numerous settings, both in and out Of the east bloc, kostova has three basic story lines to keep straight-one from 1930, when professor bartolomew rossi begins his dangerous research into dracula, one from 1950, when professor rossi's student paul takes up the scent, and the main narrative from 1972. the criss-crossing story lines mirror the political advances, retreats, triumphs, and losses that shaped dracula's beleaguered homeland-sometimes with the byzantines on top, sometimes the ottomans, sometimes the rag-tag local tribes, or the orthodox church, and sometimes a fresh conqueror like the soviet union. although the book is appropriately suspenseful and a delight to read-even the minor characters are distinctive and vividly seen-its most powerful moments are those that describe real horrors. our narrator recalls that after reading descriptions Of vlad burning young boys or impaling "a large family," she tried to forget the words: "for all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. i understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. only history itself can convince you Of such a truth." the reader, although given a satisfying ending, gets a strong enough dose Of european history to temper the usual comforts Of the closing words. from publishers weekly starred review. considering the recent rush Of door-stopping historical novels, first-timer kostova is getting a big launch-fortunately, a lot here lives up to the hype. in 1972, a 16-year-old american living in amsterdam finds a mysterious book in her diplomat father's library. the book is ancient, blank except for a sinister woodcut Of a dragon and the word "drakulya," but it's the letters tucked inside, dated 1930 and addressed to "my dear and unfortunate successor," that really pique her curiosity. her widowed father, paul, reluctantly provides pieces Of a chilling story; it seems this ominous little book has a way Of forcing itself on its owners, with terrifying results. paul's former adviser at oxford, professor rossi, became obsessed with researching dracula and was convinced that he remained alive. when rossi disappeared, paul continued his quest with the help Of another scholar, helen, who had her own reasons for seeking the truth. as paul relates these stories to his daughter, she secretly begins her own research. kostova builds suspense by revealing the threads Of her story as the narrator discovers them: what she's told, what she reads in old letters and, Of course, what she discovers directly when the legendary threat Of dracula looms. along with all the fascinating historical information, there's also a mounting casualty count, and the big showdown amps up the drama by pulling at the heartstrings at the same time it revels in the gruesome. exotic locales, tantalizing history, a family legacy and a love Of the bloodthirsty: it's hard to imagine that readers won't be bitten, too..
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