{"product_id":"9781250269171","title":"The Scholars of Night","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Scholars of Night\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): John M. Ford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn M. Ford's \u003ci\u003eThe Scholars of Night\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary novel of technological espionage and human betrayal, weaving past and present into a web of unbearable suspense.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Hansard is a brilliant historian at a small New England college. He specializes in Christopher Marlowe. But Hansard has a second, secret, career with The White Group, a “consulting agency” with shadowy government connections. There, he is a genius at teasing secrets out of documents old and new—to call him a code-breaker is an understatement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Hansard’s work exposes one of his closest friends as a Russian agent, and the friend then dies mysteriously, the connections seem all too clear. Shaken, Hansard turns away from his secret work to lose himself in an ancient Marlowe manuscript. Surely, a lost 400 year old play is different enough from modern murder. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe is very, very wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eThe Scholars of Night\u003c\/i\u003e] should have been marketed like \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e. You needed to go, ‘We have a great writer who is really fucking brilliant and he has written a book that combines high and low culture.’” —Neil Gaiman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“So easy to get lured into the world of death and double-dealing. Quite an artistic job we have here by Ford, crafty and complex.”  — \u003ci\u003eThe MYSTERY FANcier\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 11, No. 1, Winter 1989.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There's a slight Tom Clancy air to the plot, but it's unmistakably a John M. Ford book. It's a technothriller in the same way that The Final Reflection is a Star Trek novel—it has all the requisite elements put together in more or less the usual way, but everything ends up at an odd angle, creating something that is entirely different.” — \u003ci\u003eScience Blogs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wonderful kaleidoscope of the imagination.\"  —Poul Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Extraordinary…both original and dazzling.” — \u003ci\u003eThe Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eTHE DRAGON WAITING\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An unfolding cabinet of wonders. . . Provokes that rare thrill that one gets from the work of Gene Wolfe, or John Crowley, or Ursula K. Le Guin.” — \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lots of historical fantasies and alternate histories play games with history, but most of them are playing tic-tac-toe while \u003ci\u003eThe Dragon Waiting\u003c\/i\u003e is playing three-dimensional Go.” —Jo Walton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A glittering tapestry of passion and betrayal, magic and intrigue. Exhilarating.” —\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An exceedingly fine, intelligent, powerful novel.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rich and splendid.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250269171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40820598079694,"sku":"9781250269171","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_0f8bb06a-160e-4fe6-90d9-e14d46e7e449.jpg?v=1643014380","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250269171","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}