The Invention of Fire

  • Autor: Bruce Holsinger
  • Narrador: Simon Vance
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 8:45:11
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Sinopse

The author of the acclaimed medieval mystery A Burnable Book once again brings fourteenth-century London alive in all its color and detail in this riveting thriller featuring medieval poet and fixer John Gower—a twisty tale rife with intrigue, danger mystery, and murder.

Though he is one of England’s most acclaimed intellectuals, John Gower is no stranger to London’s wretched slums and dark corners, and he knows how to trade on the secrets of the kingdom’s most powerful men. When the bodies of sixteen unknown men are found in a privy, the Sheriff of London seeks Gower’s help. The men’s wounds—ragged holes created by an unknown object—are unlike anything the sheriff’s men have ever seen. Tossed into the sewer, the bodies were meant to be found. Gower believes the men may have been used in an experiment—a test for a fearsome new war weapon his informants call the “handgonne,” claiming it will be the “future of death” if its design can be perfected.

Propelled by questions of his own, Gower turns to courtier and civil servant Geoffrey Chaucer, who is working on some poems about pilgrims that Gower finds rather vulgar. Chaucer thinks he just may know who commissioned this new weapon, an extremely valuable piece of information that some will pay a high price for—and others will kill to conceal. . . 

Capítulos

  • TheInventionOfFire_38_Chapter35

    Duração: 07min
  • TheInventionOfFire_39_Chapter36

    Duração: 13min
  • TheInventionOfFire_40_Chapter37

    Duração: 10min
  • TheInventionOfFire_41_Chapter38

    Duração: 09min
  • TheInventionOfFire_42_Chapter39

    Duração: 27min
  • TheInventionOfFire_43_Chapter40

    Duração: 06min
  • TheInventionOfFire_44_Chapter41

    Duração: 09min
  • TheInventionOfFire_45_Chapter42

    Duração: 08min
  • TheInventionOfFire_46_Chapter43

    Duração: 11min
  • TheInventionOfFire_47_Chapter44

    Duração: 03min
  • TheInventionOfFire_48_Chapter45

    Duração: 05min
  • TheInventionOfFire_49_Chapter46

    Duração: 07min
  • TheInventionOfFire_50_Chapter47

    Duração: 12min
  • TheInventionOfFire_51_Chapter48

    Duração: 06min
  • TheInventionOfFire_52_Chapter49

    Duração: 09min
  • TheInventionOfFire_53_Chapter50

    Duração: 08min
  • TheInventionOfFire_54_Chapter51

    Duração: 08min
  • TheInventionOfFire_55_Epilogue

    Duração: 05min
  • TheInventionOfFire_56_HistoricalNote

    Duração: 11min
  • TheInventionOfFire_57_Credits

    Duração: 32s
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