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Graham Cluskey ermittelt im Fall des Massakers am englischen Königshof. Wer auch immer für die Tat verantwortlich ist: Er zieht im Hintergrund die Fäden und vernichtet alle Spuren. Endlich liefert der persische Alchimist Mahmud ibn Arabi den entscheidenden Hinweis: Opium! Doch erst ein schrecklicher Vorfall stößt Cluskey auf Londons Unterwelt, eine Welt dunkler Rituale und geheimer Kultstätten... und auf einen Plan, der viel perfider ist, als Cluskey je befürchtet hat!

New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be - can it? A ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addiction to truth, and she won’t rest until she unravels the mystery of her sister’s death.

A “memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square” (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and “one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time” (Philip Gourevitch). Much has...

Thomas De Quincey's highly charged and hauntingly accurate account of laudanum addiction is considered the root of all drug novels. From Baudelaire to Burroughs, Confessions of an English Opium Eater paved the way for later generations of writers. Initially prescribed as pain relief for a chronic condition, De Quincey soon found himself compelled by the opium experience.