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Mark of the Plague (A Blackthorn Key adventure)
By (Author) Kevin Sands
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Puffin
19th September 2016
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
448
Width 131mm, Height 197mm, Spine 36mm
318g
A brilliant, fast-paced adventure, perfect for fans of Percy Jackson. Boils, blood and a burning fever - the Black Death has return to London . . . As the dreaded sickness spreads through the city, striking down rich and poor alike, an unknown man arrives with a miracle cure. But, when an assassin threatens the life of the city's new saviour, young apothecary Christopher Rowe and his faithful friend Tom must risk their lives to untangle another dark conspiracy. And as the plague strikes close to home the stakes are raised higher than ever before . . . A brilliant, fast-paced adventure, perfect for fans of Percy Jackson.
Since escaping from university with a pair of degrees in theoretical physics, Kevin Sands has worked as a researcher, a business consultant and a teacher. He lives in Toronto, Canada.