The secret of Abdu el Yezdi : a Burton and Swinburne adventure /
Following Queen Victoria's assassination in 1840, England's rulers had been receiving guidance from Abu El Yezdi, a dead mystic, but when high-ranking officials are kidnapped it is up to Sir Richard Burton to find the missing men and discover why Abu El Yezdi has suddenly become silent.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amherst, NY :
Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books,
2013.
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| Series: | Hodder, Mark, 1962- Burton & Swinburne ;
4. |
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| Summary: | Following Queen Victoria's assassination in 1840, England's rulers had been receiving guidance from Abu El Yezdi, a dead mystic, but when high-ranking officials are kidnapped it is up to Sir Richard Burton to find the missing men and discover why Abu El Yezdi has suddenly become silent. Since the assassination of Queen Victoria, the spirit of a dead mystic, Abdu El Yezdi, has helped steer Britain into a period of unprecedented peace and creativity. But on the eve of a groundbreaking alliance with the newly formed Greater German Confederation, scientists, surgeons, and engineers are being abducted ... and Abdu El Yezdi is now refusing to speak with the living. Sir Richard Francis Burton must trace the missing luminaries and solve the mystery of Abdu El Yezdi's silence. But the Beast has been summoned ... |
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| Physical Description: | 395 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781616147778 1616147776 |