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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Jul 2006
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British
Retail Price: $21.99
Pages: 336
Discovering a pawn ticket that leads them to London’s Chinatown district, Victorian enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, retrieve a seemingly innocuous book that turns out be a rare stolen text containing martial arts secrets that are forbidden to the West. Simultanous.
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