The Scholars of Night
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3.9 • 8 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Whipping modern war games and Renaissance skullduggery into a frothy blend, this long out-of-print 1988 spy novel is part of the rediscovery of World Fantasy Award winner Ford's legacy. Nicholas Hansard, history professor and consultant to the shadowy White Group, is grieving his mentor's death when he's given a copy of a lost play by Christopher Marlowe. His efforts to authenticate the text are complicated by the White Group's need to identify his mentor's spy network and discover what military secret he was plotting to turn over to the Soviets. Nicholas is fortuitously assisted by Ellen Maxwell, a fellow scholar whose resemblance to Nicholas's dead wife is a further distraction for him. Ford (1957–2006) injects historical speculation about Marlowe and a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth into the deadly high-tech espionage and naval warfare, making a mélange that should catch the interest of readers of alternate histories and spy novels alike.
