Lexicon

Max Barry

ISBN 10: 0143125427 / ISBN 13: 9780143125426

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Apr 2014, 2014

Beschreibung

Neuware - 'About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell.Lexiconreads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind onSnow Crash.' Lev Grossman,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe MagiciansandThe Magician King Best thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece. Hugh Howey,New York Timesbestselling author ofWoolStick and stones break bones. Words kill.They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words.They'll live to regret it.They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember.Now they're after him and he doesn't know why.There's a word, they say. A word that kills.And they want it back . . .

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780143125426

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Lexicon
• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Apr 2014
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0143125427
• ISBN-13: 9780143125426
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

"About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash." —Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King

“Best thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece.” —Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool

Stick and stones break bones. Words kill.

They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words.

They'll live to regret it.

They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember.

Now they're after him and he doesn't know why.

There's a word, they say. A word that kills.

And they want it back . . .

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Max Barry is the author of four previous novels, Syrup, Jennifer Government, Company, and Machine Man. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.