The Orpheus Descent

by Tom Harper

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I have never written down the answers to the deepest mysteries, nor will I ever...

The philosopher Plato wrote these words more than two thousand years ago, following a perilous voyage to Italy -- an experience about which he never spoke again, but from which he emerged the greatest thinker in all of human history.

Today, twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Archaeologist Lily Barnes, working on a dig in southern Italy, has just found another.

But the...

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  • ISBN10 1444731378
  • ISBN13 9781444731378
  • Publish Date 24 October 2013 (first published 23 May 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
  • Imprint Hodder Paperback
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 496
  • Language English