The Overseer

Author:   Jonathan Rabb
Publisher:   Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
ISBN:  

9781905559008


Pages:   408
Publication Date:   06 July 2006
Format:   Paperback
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It has long been rumoured in academic circles that a sixteenth-century monk named Eisenreich took Machiavelli several steps further, writing a masterplan for world domination so dangerous the Pope had him killed to suppress it. But Eisenreich's text, On Supremacy, survived. Some scholars even believed the Third Reich had a copy. But when the bullet-ridden body of a young girl is found in Montana and 'Eisenreich' is her dying word, it becomes terrifyingly clear that not only is the document real - someone is planning to use this explosive piece of history in the late twentieth century. The deadly document is at the heart of The Overseer, a chillingly authentic, compulsively readable thriller of global intrigue and political conspiracy that follows a desperate search for a fabled manuscript, one with frightening modern-day implications. Beautiful, troubled government agent Sarah Trent is given just enough information by her covert office to begin digging into the murder of the young girl. Her search takes her to Columbia University and a brilliant young political theorist named Xander Jaspers, who agrees to help her. But neither Xander nor Sarah fully understand the dangerous situation into which they've been thrown. For On Supremacy has fallen into the hands of a cabal intent on using it as a blueprint for ripping apart society as we know it and creating a new world order out of the ashes of the old. The cabal, led by a coldly intelligent mastermind called the Overseer, begins its campaign of terror. As the acts of terrorism - assassinations, bombings, the collapse of the grain market - go off like clockwork, Sarah and Xander realise the only way to prevent total chaos is to find another copy of the manuscript and uncover the identity of the Overseer - and so the race is on. This intelligent, full-throttle thriller is the extraordinary literary debut of a young political theorist, author Jonathan Rabb, who asks: What if such a sophisticated and dangerous sixteenth-century document resurfaced at the turn of the millennium? Would it be the most thrilling discovery of the twentieth century ... or the most terrifying? Read On Supremacy at the end of this provocative novel and judge for yourself.

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Author:   Jonathan Rabb
Publisher:   Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Imprint:   Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 14.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781905559008


ISBN 10:   1905559003
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   06 July 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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'The Book of Q and The Overseer by New York novelist Jonathan Rabb easily out-manoeuvre Brown in grand and dark ecclesiastical designs.' Boyd Tonkin -- The Independent


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Jonathan Rabb has a B. A. from Yale and an M. Phil from Columbia University in political theory and taught at Columbia College for three years, specialising in early modern political thought. He had the idea for The Overseer while on a Fulbright fellowship in Germany. Rabb lives in New York City.

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