It was the silly season and a Monday at that, and Kinsey Millhone was launched down in a preliminary report on a fire claim. Something was nagging at her, but she couldn't pin it. The last thing she needed in the morning mail was a letter from her bank recording an erronic $5,000 deposit in her account.
The Eight features two intertwined storylines set centuries apart. The first takes place in 1972 and follows American computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis as she is sent to Algeria for a special assignment. The second is set in 1790 and revolves around Mireille, a novice nun at Montglane Abbey. The fates of both characteristics are intertwined as they try to unravel the mystery behind the Montglass Service, a chess set that holds the key to a game of unlimited power. A gift from the Moors to Emperor
Don Jaime Astarloa is one of the few fencing teachers left in Spain in the late 19th century. General Prim is already stalking the government of Elizabeth II and the revolution is the subject of coffee tertulias.
This is a small great book: entertaining, affectionable, that is enjoyed with the five senses; or the six, as is often said, because there is a great sense of humor in their pages. And that usual simplicity and closeness of Delibes, the mark of the house, when it comes to telling stories that makes us feel that he is still at our side, smiling just like us.
Edward I of England and Philip IV of France are at war. Philip has managed to take over the English duchy of Aquitaine, and is committed to crushing Eduardo with all the means at his disposal. The English king suspects that his enemy has the help of a spy who moves his wide through the London court, and orders Hugo Corbett to locate and, if possible, destroy the traitor. A company that will make you take serious risks by land and by sea, and that leads Corbett to the dangerous low funds of Paris and later to the hostile environment of Wales.
In 1471, the king of Castilla Enrique IV, El Impotente, sent to Africa a squadron of ballesters to catch a unicorn with which horn seeks to restore its weakened virility.
The literary release of Gonzalo Hidalgo Bayal and the first glimpse of the city of Murania, which will appear in the rest of his novels as a literary and imaginative reflection of the province.
In the world, to be a sorcerer it is essential to be an eighth child of an eighth child. In this book we are discovered why sorcerers cannot have sex: if they had sex they could have eight children. And an eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son is a source of power squared. A Referee.
In the world, to be a sorcerer it is essential to be an eighth child of an eighth child. In this book we are discovered why sorcerers cannot have sex: if they had sex they could have eight children. And an eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son is a source of power squared. A Referee.
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