Book description
Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the
Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept
guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off.
After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the
treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help. Luckily Special
Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind
in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward,
Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been
protecting. The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and
Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean
liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As Pendergast and Constance
board, they know they are joined by a cargo of secrets and murderers. As
the ship slips into the night, it becomes a deadly race to recover the
secret of the monks, or blackness to threaten to fall not just over the
ship, but the wider world A stunning dance of death and mystery, THE
WHEEL OF DARKNESS takes the most unusual investigator around on his most
thrilling case yet
