The Book of Names

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When Adam wrote down the names he allocated to the earth's creatures he never expected the manuscript would one day be fought over by a disgraced French Count two Russian oligarchs and a rogue's gallery of misfits-as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When a dishevelled ex-con collides with a bankrupt aristocrat on a rain-soaked Parisian street they unwittingly set off a chain of events that unearths a conspiracy older than the French Republic-and possibly the universe itself. At the centre lies a decaying château a stolen fortune and a leather-bound artefact whispered about in obscure footnotes and forbidden histories: </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Book of Names</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Said to contain the true name of every living thing the Book bestows immense power upon those who understand its secrets. Pursued by oligarchs occultists and a witch who once ruled the steppes the unlikely duo are joined by a master thief a philosophising chef and three daughters of an extinct warrior order-each drawn into a caper that blurs the line between myth and memory.</span></p>