PALMA ‘Inventive fun’ The Washington Post ‘Palma’s yarn is altogether a satisfying, thoroughly entertaining creature feature.
The Map of Chaos is a spellbinding adventure which mixes impossible loves, nonstop action, real ghosts, and fake mediums in an explosive cocktail that is sure to captivate readers all over the world. Palma brings together a cast of real and imagined literary characters in Victorian-Age London when spiritualism is at its height. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty, forever being matched with men her family consider suitable, yearns for a time when she can be free to love whom she choses. Proving once again that he is ‘a master of ingenious plotting’ ( Kirkus Reviews), Félix J. Andrew Harrington's lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her.
They alone can discover the means to save the world and to find the path that will reunite the lovers separated by death. Wells, whose Invisible Man seems to have escaped from the pages of his famous novel to sow terror among mankind. In his search, he is given invaluable help from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Carroll, and of course by H.G. Salvation can only be found in The Map of Chaos, an obscure book that he is desperate to find. A session with the most renowned medium of all time seems to offer the only solution, but the experience unleashes terrible forces that bring the world to the brink of disaster. The New York Times bestselling author of The Map of Time and The Map of the Sky returns with the final instalment in the bestselling, award-winning trilogy that The Washington Post called ‘a big, genre-bending delight.’ When the person he loves most dies in tragic circumstances, the mysterious protagonist of The Map of Chaos does all he can to speak to her one last time and confess the secret he didn’t dare tell her while she was alive.
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