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Название книги: The strange affair of Spring-heeled Jack
Автор(ы): Марк Ходдер
Жанр: Боевая фантастика
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A known mistake is bettor than an unknown truth.
- ARABIC PROVERB




THE AFTERMATH OF AFRICA


Everything Life places in your path is an opportunity.
No matter how difficult.
No matter how upsetting.
No matter how impenetrable.
No matter how you judge it.
An opportunity.
- LIBERTINE PROPAGANDA


Sir Richard Francis Burton staggered back and collapsed into his chair. The note Arthur Findlay had passed to him fluttered to the floor. The other men turned away, took their seats, examined their fingernails, and fiddled with their shirt collars; anything to avoid looking at their stricken colleague.
From where she stood on the threshold of the "robing room," hidden by its partially closed door, Isabel Arundell could see that her lover's normally dark and intense eyes were wide with shock, filled with a sudden vulnerability. His mou