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    The Orpheus Descent

    Written by Tom Harper

    Narrated by Gareth Armstrong, Kris Milnes and Sarah Feathers

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    I have never written down the answers to the deepest mysteries, nor will I ever... The philosopher Plato wrote these words more than two thousand years ago, following a perilous voyage to Italy -- an experience about which he never spoke again, but from which he emerged the greatest thinker in all of human history.

    Today, twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Archaeologist Lily Barnes, working on a dig in southern Italy, has just found another. But this tablet names the location to the mouth of hell itself.

    And then Lily vanishes. Has she walked out on her job, her marriage, and her life -- or has something more sinister happened? Her husband, Jonah, is desperate to find her. But no one can help him: not the police, and not the secretive foundation that sponsored her dig. All Jonah has is belief, and a determination to do whatever it takes to get Lily back.

    But like Plato before him, Jonah will discover the journey ahead is mysterious and dark and fraught with danger. And not everyone who travels to the hidden place where Lily has gone can return.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette UK Audio
    Release dateMay 23, 2013
    ISBN9781444731491
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    The Orpheus Descent
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    Tom Harper

    Tom Harper has written a dozen thrillers, including The Orpheus Descent, Lost Temple, and Secrets of the Dead. He grew up in Germany, Belgium, and America, and studied history at Oxford University. His first novel was a runner-up for the CWA Debut Dagger Award. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in York, England, with his wife and two sons.

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    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed how the author tied historical and present day stories together with philosophy, archaeology, intrigue, and a quest for mysteries beyond the human experience. This is the first book I have read by Tom Harper and it was hard for me to put it down.
    • 4/5
      This is an imaginatively drafted and thought provoking thriller that takes place in two timelines in alternating chapters. In 389 BC, Plato is trying to trace the Italian travels of a missing friend while in the present day Jonas refuses to believe that Lily, his archeologist wife on a dig in Italy, has just walked away from him. The stories are linked by a mysterious golden tablet that everyone seems to want. The stories are equally suspenseful and equally frustrating. They are full of riddles, mazes, cryptic rhymes, metaphors and puzzles. No one in either timeline ever answers a question directly. I found this a little annoying at times. While both stories held my interest, I slightly preferred the Plato parts of the book because I like historical fiction and philosophy. In the final chapters of the book, the two story lines blended together in an almost hypnotic fashion and there was some beautiful imagery. I enjoyed this book very much and would like to read more by this author. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.