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The Rook

The Rook

A Novel

by Daniel O'Malley
Hardback
Publication Date: 11/01/2012

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Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But there is a mole inside the organization, and this person wants her dead.

Battling to save herself, Myfanwy will encounter a person with four bodies, a woman who can enter her dreams, children transformed into deadly fighters, and terrifyingly vast conspiracy.

Suspenseful and hilarious, The Rook is an outrageously imaginative thriller for readers who like their espionage with a dollop of purple slime.

"Utterly convincing and engrossing -- -totally thought-through and frequently hilarious....Even this aging, jaded, attention-deficit-disordered critic was blown away."-Lev Grossman, Time

ISBN:
9780316098793
9780316098793
Category:
Fantasy
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
11-01-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Little, Brown & Company
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
247.65x165.1x44.45mm
Weight:
0.74kg
Daniel O'Malley

Daniel O'Malley is a 30ish American who grew up in Australia, attended college in the US, and returned to live in Australia as an adult.

He now works for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau in Canberra, writing press releases for government investigations of plane crashes and runaway boats.

The juxtaposition of high drama and Office-like bureaucracy at his job gave him the spark of inspiration for The Rook and subsequent Checquy novels

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