Laurie R. King. (2010). The God of the Hive. Random House Publishing Group.

Laurie R. King. 2010. The God of the Hive. Random House Publishing Group.

Laurie R. King, The God of the Hive. Random House Publishing Group, 2010.

Laurie R. King. The God of the Hive. Random House Publishing Group, 2010.

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   • bioText: Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen Mary Russell mysteries, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, the Stuyvesant & Grey novels Touchstone and The Bones of Paris, and the acclaimed A Darker Place, Folly, and Keeping Watch. She lives in Northern California.
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“Mesmerizing—another wonderful novel etched by the hand of a master storyteller.”—Michael Connelly
Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have stirred the wrath of a murderous secret organization bent on infiltrating the government. Now they are separated and on the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the Continent by a ruthless enemy with limitless resources and powerful connections.
Unstoppable together, Russell and Holmes will have to survive this time apart, maintaining contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes. But has the couple made a fatal mistake by separating, making themselves easier targets for the shadowy government agents sent to silence them?
A hermit with a mysterious past and a beautiful young female doctor with a secret, a cruelly scarred flyer and an obsessed man of the cloth: Everyone Russell and Holmes meet could either speed their safe reunion or betray them to their enemies—in the most complex, shocking, and deeply personal case of their career.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Laurie R. King's Pirate King.

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   • source: Michael Connelly, author of The Scarecrow
   • content: "The God of the Hive is mesmerizing--another wonderful novel etched by the hand of a master storyteller. No reader who opens this one will be disappointed."
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   • source: Katherine Neville, The Fire
   • content: "A dazzling continuation of the adventures of the world's most famous beekeeper, and his equally daunting "apprentice," The God of the Hive will astonish and delight even the most seasoned of Holmes' devotees."
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   • source: Lee Child, author of Gone Tomorrow
   • content: "The Mary Russell series is the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today, and this is the best installment yet."
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   • source: Gayle Lynds, author of The Book of Spies
   • content: "Without a doubt, King is the master of Sherlockian authors."
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   • source: M.J Rose, author of The Hypnotist
   • content: "All it takes is the very first page of the newest installment in Laurie R. King's brilliant series for and you're gone...disappearing into an artfully crafted, creative and craft world...This is historical suspense at its best, rich with atmosphere, mystery, psychological insight and complex, fascinating characters. But it's not just the plot of Russell's world, or how she matches wits with Holmes that makes King's books such standouts, it's how she brings heart and soul to great detective novels."
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     March 8, 2010
     Those who enjoyed the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes
     starring Robert Downey Jr. may appreciate bestseller King's heavy-on-action, light-on-deduction 10th novel featuring Mary Russell and her much older husband, Conan Doyle's iconic detective. The plot picks up in the summer of 1924 right after the previous entry in the series, The Language of Bees
     . A religious fanatic, Rev. Thomas Brothers, who seeks to unleash psychic energies through human sacrifice, has shot Holmes's artist son, Damian Adler, seriously wounding the young man. Holmes's desperate quest for medical help to save his son's life takes him to Holland, while Mary travels throughout Britain in an effort to keep Damian's half-Chinese daughter, Estelle, safe from Brothers and his allies. Cliffhanging situations abound as both leads benefit from the convenient appearance of extremely helpful strangers.

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     Starred review from February 15, 2010
     Using short chapters and wielding her virtual pen like a burnished sword, King allows readers to race through this gloriously complex second half of last years Language of Bees. Sherlock Holmes is trying to get his gravely wounded son, the artist Damien Adler, out of England. Holmes wife, Mary Russell, is trying to protect Estelle, Damiens small daughter. Mycroft Holmes, recovering from a heart attack, suddenly goes missing. The madman responsible for Damiens injury was once married to Damiens recently murdered Chinese wife. A woodland character who could be the Green Man has a shell-shocked Great War past. The attacks on the Holmes family are specific, devious, cunning, and widespread. How Mary, Holmes, and Mycroft solve this conundrumusually while separated from one anotheris delineated in resplendent prose. The nascent and rocky development of air travel and international telephone lines; the effect of a winsome and intelligent child on perhaps overintellectual adults; descriptions of locales and places via scent, texture, and colorall of it makes for utterly absorbing reading. The end is both puzzling and uplifting. Things may not be quite what they seem. A few ends are left dangling: one can only imagine purposefully. Devoted King fans will probably reread both The Language of Bees and The God of the Hive and wonder about Holmes bees and what might come next.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)

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Unstoppable together, Russell and Holmes will have to survive this time apart, maintaining contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes. But has the couple made a fatal mistake by separating, making themselves easier targets for the shadowy government agents sent to silence them?
A hermit with a mysterious past and a beautiful young female doctor with a secret, a cruelly scarred flyer and an obsessed man of the cloth: Everyone Russell and Holmes meet could either speed their safe reunion or betray them to their enemies—in...

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