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Der Pakt der Bücher
2018
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Londons Straße der Buchhändler – Labyrinthe aus Regalen, Läden voller Geschichten auf vergilbtem Papier. Mercy Amberdale führt hier das Antiquariat ihres Stiefvaters und praktiziert die Magie der Bücher. Als man sie zwingt, das letzte Kapitel des verschollenen Flaschenpostbuchs an den undurchsichtigen Mister Sedgwick zu übermitteln, gerät das Reich der Bibliomantik aus den Fugen. Vergiftete Bücher und nächtliche Rituale, ein magisches Luftschiff und ein mysteriöser Marquis reißen Mercy in einen Strudel tödlicher Intrigen. Denn wer alle Kapitel des Flaschenpostbuchs vereint, kann die Grenze zwischen Wirklichkeit und Fiktion niederreißen. Wenn Mercy ihre Gegner nicht aufhält, droht ihrer Welt der Untergang – und die Invasion der Antagonisten.

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Kai Meyer
Kai Meyer
Author · 59 books

With millions of books sold worldwide, Kai Meyer is one of Germany's most successful authors. His novels have been translated into 27 languages including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Chinese. Kai Meyer was born in 1969 in northern Germany. He began college at the University of Bochum, Germany, where he studied film, theatre, and philosophy. After a year, he dropped out to work for a newspaper as a trainee journalist, followed by two years as a staff journalist. Kai wrote his first novel in his early 20s, and it was published when he was just 24 years old. He has been a full-time novelist since 1995. To date, Kai has written nearly 50 books – some for adults, some for teenagers. Kai’s books are mostly historical with strong fantastical overtones. There are over 1.5 million Kai Meyer books in print in Germany, and he is quickly gaining popularity in other countries as well: THE WATER MIRROR went into its third US printing before it was even delivered to bookstores, and his young adult dark fantasy series SIEBEN SIEGEL is a substantial hit in Japan. The British edition of THE FLOWING QUEEN / THE WATER MIRROR won the 2007 Marsh Award for Best Children´s Book in Translation. In 2007 his historical novel DAS GELÜBDE (The Vow) was turned into a movie by celebrated German director Dominik Graf. SIEBEN SIEGEL is set to be filmed in 2008, other books are optioned. Kai has also written screenplays, two of which have been made into TV movies. He is the author of a hardcover comic book, PANDORAMICUM, and is one of the creators of the fantasy role-playing game ENGEL (US edition by White Wolf). Kai Meyer lives in Westphalia near the Rhine in Germany.

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