Ex Libris - Hardcover

"A suitably labyrinthine plot... Above all, it is King's sheer gift for storytelling that makes Ex Libris such an enjoyable read." -- "The Oxford Times" "Highly original and very clever indeed." -- "Manchester Evening News" "An exquisite historical thriller and a story which twists and turns like the beautifully-evoked back streets of 17th century London." -- "Yorkshire Evening Post" "Ross King is a master craftsman of extravagant melodrama." -- "Irish Times" "From the Trade Paperback edition."

A novel of murder, love and espionage. A cryptic summons from Lady Marchamont launches a London bookseller on an odyssey through the back alleys and secret corridors of 17th-century Europe. So begins a scholarly game where the forces are anonymous, motives inexplicable, but the outcome deadly.