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The Last Bookaneer

The Last Bookaneer

by Matthew Pearl (Author)

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    Hardcover 2015

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Synopsis

On the island of Samoa, in a house perched on a cliff beneath a smouldering volcano, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labours over a new novel. It is rumoured that this may be the author of Treasure Island's greatest masterpiece. On the other side of the world this news fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, literary pirates who steal the latest manuscripts by famous writers to smuggle them to a hungry public. But a changing world means the bookaneers will soon become extinct. Two adversaries set out for the south Pacific: Pen Davenport, a tortured criminal genius haunted by his past and Belial, his nemesis. Both dream of fortune and immortality with this last and most incredible heist. The Last Bookaneer thrillingly depicts the lost world of these doomed outlaws, a tropical island with a violent destiny, a brewing colonial war and a reclusive genius directing events from high in his mountain compound.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 400
 Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 14 May 2015
ISBN 10: 1846556198
ISBN 13: 9781846556197
Book Overview: Mystery, celebrity, theft - and a thrilling adventure set at the ends of the earth...

Media Reviews
An ingenious thriller Sunday Times Masterly story-telling Daily Mail A mixture of a classic heist and literary history lesson; the whole Victorian world of letters is cleverly and wittily reimagined -- Kate Saunders The Times A historical jigsaw puzzle of literary larceny, deception, and derring-do...richly imagined Boston Globe [Pearl's] clever final twist will surprise the general reader, and please Stevenson scholars -- Janette Currie Independent on Sunday
Author Bio
Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. His other books include The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.