The Secret of Abdul El
Yezdi by the Philip K Dick award-winning author Mark Hodder is published by
Del Rey later this month (£16.99).
“Having successfully discovered the source of the Nile,
Captain Richard Francis Burton returns to London expecting to marry his fiancé,
Isabel Arundell, and be awarded the consulship of Damascus. However, when he's
unexpectedly knighted by King George V, his plans go awry. The monarch requires
an agent to investigate a sequence of disappearances, and Burton, whether he
likes it or not, is the man for the job.
Engineering and medical luminaries – such as Isambard
Kingdom Brunel and Florence Nightingale - are among the missing, but the most
significant absence is that of Abdu El Yezdi, an inhabitant of the Afterlife
who, in the two decades since the assassination of Queen Victoria, has been
Prime Minister Disraeli's most trusted advisor.
The search for the missing ghost soon becomes the least of
the explorer's concerns, for it quickly becomes apparent that he himself is at
the centre of increasingly bizarre and interconnected events, and that someone –
or something – is intent not only on meddling with history, but also on harming
the people Burton values the most.”
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