The Invention of Fire

  • Author: Bruce Holsinger
  • Narrator: Simon Vance
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 8:45:11
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Synopsis

The author of the acclaimed medieval mystery A Burnable Book once again brings fourteenth-century London alive in all its color and detail in this riveting thriller featuring medieval poet and fixer John Gower—a twisty tale rife with intrigue, danger mystery, and murder.

Though he is one of England’s most acclaimed intellectuals, John Gower is no stranger to London’s wretched slums and dark corners, and he knows how to trade on the secrets of the kingdom’s most powerful men. When the bodies of sixteen unknown men are found in a privy, the Sheriff of London seeks Gower’s help. The men’s wounds—ragged holes created by an unknown object—are unlike anything the sheriff’s men have ever seen. Tossed into the sewer, the bodies were meant to be found. Gower believes the men may have been used in an experiment—a test for a fearsome new war weapon his informants call the “handgonne,” claiming it will be the “future of death” if its design can be perfected.

Propelled by questions of his own, Gower turns to courtier and civil servant Geoffrey Chaucer, who is working on some poems about pilgrims that Gower finds rather vulgar. Chaucer thinks he just may know who commissioned this new weapon, an extremely valuable piece of information that some will pay a high price for—and others will kill to conceal. . . 

Chapters

  • TheInventionOfFire_01_Open

    Duration: 15s
  • TheInventionOfFire_02_ANoteToTheReader

    Duration: 01min
  • TheInventionOfFire_03_Prologue

    Duration: 06min
  • TheInventionOfFire_04_Part1Chapter1

    Duration: 33min
  • TheInventionOfFire_05_Chapter2

    Duration: 30min
  • TheInventionOfFire_06_Chapter3

    Duration: 13min
  • TheInventionOfFire_24_Chapter21

    Duration: 09min
  • TheInventionOfFire_25_Chapter22

    Duration: 19min
  • TheInventionOfFire_26_Chapter23

    Duration: 33min
  • TheInventionOfFire_27_Chapter24

    Duration: 20min
  • TheInventionOfFire_28_Chapter25

    Duration: 17min
  • TheInventionOfFire_29_Chapter26

    Duration: 07min
  • TheInventionOfFire_30_Chapter27

    Duration: 26min
  • TheInventionOfFire_31_Chapter28

    Duration: 15min
  • TheInventionOfFire_32_Part3Chapter29

    Duration: 26min
  • TheInventionOfFire_33_Chapter30

    Duration: 14min
  • TheInventionOfFire_34_Chapter31

    Duration: 10min
  • TheInventionOfFire_35_Chapter32

    Duration: 17min
  • TheInventionOfFire_36_Chapter33

    Duration: 20min
  • TheInventionOfFire_37_Chapter34

    Duration: 12min
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