num_pages: 279
description: And so my friends he said looking back at each one of us in turn it falls to me to pass this burden to someone other than myself. I dare not ask yet I hope that you will take it for me. The statue must be recovered and destroyed before these men find it.EUROPE 1925. The continent still licks its wounds from the devastating war that raged across it a few years before. Meanwhile in London an ageing professor has uncovered the clues to the whereabouts of pieces of an ancient statue all but forgotten by history.When his investigations lead him to fear for his life he enlists the aid of an unlikely group of allies; a retired colonel a secretive academic a magicians wife and a Yorkshire matriarch with her reluctant assistant.Together they will journey across Europe to recover the long-lost statue. They will travel in style on the most luxurious train the world has ever seen. Unbeknownst to them however their activities have already attracted the attention of a sinister cult desperate to acquire the artefact for their own dark purposes and now a terrible creature trapped for centuries senses that the opportunity for revenge has come at last... THE EXPRESS DIARIES is a tale of a journey into darkness and horror on the world's most famous train.
language: English
title: The Express Diaries
publisher: Innsmouth House Press