num_pages: 464
description: The ultimate book-lover's fantasy featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world for fans of The Magicians Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and The Invisible Library.For his entire life Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother Rob -- a young lawyer with a normal house a normal fiancee and an utterly normal life -- hopes that this strange family secret will disappear with disuse and he will be discharged from his life's duty of protecting Charley and the real world from each other. But then literary characters start causing trouble in their city making threats about destroying the world... and for once it isn't Charley's doing.There's someone else who shares his powers. It's up to Charley and a reluctant Rob to stop them before these characters tear apart the fabric of reality.
language: English
title: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
publisher: Redhook