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Author Holsinger, Bruce.

Title The invention of fire / Bruce Holsinger.

Publication Info. New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F HOLSINGER BRUCE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F HOLSINGE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION HOLSINGER    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  F HOLSINGER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  HOLSINGER, BRUCE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-HOL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F HOLSINGER, B.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC HOLSINGER    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  HOLSINGER    Missing
 Southington Library - Adult  F HOLSINGER    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 420 pages : map ; 24 cm
Summary Investigating a mass murder in London, medieval poet and fixer John Gower discovers clues that the victims were test subjects for a fearsome new weapon.
"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" -- provided by publisher.
Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Fiction.
Gower, John, 1325?-1408 -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- To 1500 -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Suspense fiction.
ISBN 9780062356451
0062356453
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