Book description
1593: The dreaded alchemist, black magician and spy Dr John Dee is missing...
Fear sweeps through the court of Queen Elizabeth, for in Dee's
possession is an obsidian mirror, an object of great power which
legend says could set the world afire.
And so the call goes out to celebrated swordsman, adventurer and
rake Will Swyfte: find Dee and his feared looking-glass and return
them to London before disaster strikes. But when Will learns that the
mirror may help him solve the mystery that has haunted him for years,
the stakes become acutely personal.
With a frozen London under siege by supernatural powers, time is
running out. Will is left with no alternative but to pursue the
alchemist to the devil-haunted lands of the New World and the
terrifying fortress home of mankind's ancient enemy, the Unseelie Court.
Facing an army of these unearthly fiends, with only his sword and a
few brave friends at his back, the realm's greatest spy must be
prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice - or see all he loves destroyed.
A two-time winner of the British Fantasy Award,
Mark Chadbourn
was raised in the mining communities of South Derbyshire, and studied
at Leeds University before becoming a journalist. Now a screenwriter for
BBC TV drama, he has also run an independent record company, managed
rock bands, worked on a production line and as an engineer's 'mate'.
Mark Chadbourn lives in a forest in the Midlands. To find out more about
him and his writing, visit
www. jackofravens. com
