The Orpheus descent
Subtitle: a novel
By: Tom Harper
Edition: First Harper Paperbacks edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780062305282
Subjects: Archaeologists; Missing persons; Fiction; Hell
Description: The greatest thinker in human history, Plato, travels to Italy seeking initiation into the Orphic mysteries: the secret to the Underworld known only to the gods. But the knowledge he discovers is terrifying. Two millennia later, twelve ancient golden tablets secreted in museums around the world hold sacred information known to only a few—the pathway the dead must follow to the afterlife. And archaeologist Lily Barnes has just found another on a dig in southern Italy. But this tablet is far more valuable—and dangerous—than the rest. It holds the key to hell itself. Now, Lily is gone and her husband, Jonah, is desperate to find her. He knows she is alive—and in mortal danger—and he’s willing to go to hell itself to find her. But the deeper he descends on this dark and twisting journey, the more Jonah’s fear rises, for not everyone who travels where Lily has gone will find their way back.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Hodder & Stoughton"--Title page verso.