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The Scholars of Night

By John M. Ford
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John M. Ford's The Scholars of Night is an extraordinary novel of technological espionage and human betrayal, weaving past and present into a web of unbearable suspense.

Nicholas Hansard is a brilliant historian at a small New England college. He specializes in Christopher Marlowe. But Hansard has a second, secret, career with The White Group, a “consulting agency” with shadowy government connections. There, he is a genius at teasing secrets out of documents old and new—to call him a code-breaker is an understatement.

When Hansard’s work exposes one of his closest friends as a Russian agent, and the friend then dies mysteriously, the connections seem all too clear. Shaken, Hansard turns away from his secret work to lose himself in an ancient Marlowe manuscript. Surely, a lost 400 year old play is different enough from modern murder.

He is very, very wrong.

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“<strong>A Must Read</strong> This is the most frustrating and consuming book I have ever read. It's full of characters you may or may not want to know, including a possible traitor. The book is like nothing I have read before. It is definitely great literature and they honestly do not write books like this anymore.”
“This new edition comes to us with a fresh foreword by Charles Stross, endeavoring to explain the book’s continuing sociopolitical relevance in 2021. This — while full of valid observations — may leave new readers expecting something far drier and angrier than what follows. Ford’s story drips with murder and betrayal, but also with an open-hearted enthusiasm for history and an unflinching examination of our own complicated relationships, for better or for worse. It’s as worthy a read now as it was then. (reviewed in Sci-Fi Magazine)”

About John M. Ford

John M. Ford’s (1957-2006) novels include the World Fantasy Award-winning The Dragon Waiting, the Philip K. Dick Award-winning Growing up Weightless, and the contemporary thriller The Scholars of Night. His debut novel Web of Angels has been called “cyberpunk before there was cyberpunk.” He spent the latter decade-and-a-half of his writing life in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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