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_38_Chapter35

    Duration: 07min
  • TheInventionOfFire_39_Chapter36

    Duration: 13min
  • TheInventionOfFire_40_Chapter37

    Duration: 10min
  • TheInventionOfFire_41_Chapter38

    Duration: 09min
  • TheInventionOfFire_42_Chapter39

    Duration: 27min
  • TheInventionOfFire_43_Chapter40

    Duration: 06min
  • TheInventionOfFire_44_Chapter41

    Duration: 09min
  • TheInventionOfFire_45_Chapter42

    Duration: 08min
  • TheInventionOfFire_46_Chapter43

    Duration: 11min
  • TheInventionOfFire_47_Chapter44

    Duration: 03min
  • TheInventionOfFire_48_Chapter45

    Duration: 05min
  • TheInventionOfFire_49_Chapter46

    Duration: 07min
  • TheInventionOfFire_50_Chapter47

    Duration: 12min
  • TheInventionOfFire_51_Chapter48

    Duration: 06min
  • TheInventionOfFire_52_Chapter49

    Duration: 09min
  • TheInventionOfFire_53_Chapter50

    Duration: 08min
  • TheInventionOfFire_54_Chapter51

    Duration: 08min
  • TheInventionOfFire_55_Epilogue

    Duration: 05min
  • TheInventionOfFire_56_HistoricalNote

    Duration: 11min
  • TheInventionOfFire_57_Credits

    Duration: 32s
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