Everything Under the Sky
A Novel
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On Sale:
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31/07/2009
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Formats:
Trade paperback
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From the bestselling author of The Last Cato comes an addictively entertaining adventure in a land of danger and mystery.
A prim, straitlaced Spanish painter living in Paris, Elvira De Poulain is shocked to hear of her profligate husband’s death and travels to Shanghai to claim his body and put his affairs in order. Overwhelmed by his still-outstanding debts and scandals—adrift in an exotic city teeming with unfamiliar sights, sounds, and smells—she discovers a treasure among her late husband’s detritus: a beautifully crafted box holding clues to the location of the remains of China’s First Emperor...and the unimaginable riches buried alongside him.
Joining forces with a colorful Irish journalist, a wily local antiquarian, and a brilliant orphaned servant boy, Elvira is immediately swept up into the adventure of a lifetime. But she and her motley partners are not alone in their quest—and those who pursue them have murdered before, and would murder again, to possess the wealth of an ancient dynasty.
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Author Extras
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Critical Praise for
Everything Under the Sky
"Asensi delivers fun in new thriller...an adventure that is so engrossing it could compel the reader to skip meals and ignore chores in a mad dash to read the book’s ending...Delicious to read."
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Associated Press
"A riveting journey into a past shrouded in mystery and literary allegory. . . . A thriller to open the eyes and stir the heart."
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James Rollins, author of Map of Bones
"What fans will like: international travel, puzzles, secret societies and historical treasures. "
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USA Today
"a cross-country race that showcases both the Spanish author’s meticulous historical research and her skill at interweaving it into her suspenseful narrative."
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Publishers Weekly
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The Last Cato
A masterful blend of Christian scholarship and thrilling adventure, The Last Cato is a novel about the race to find the secret location of the Vera Cruz, the True Cross on which Christ was crucified, and the ancient brotherhood sworn to protect it. Holy relics are disappearing from sacred spots...
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