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The Devil in Amber: A Lucifer Box Novel (Lucifer Box Novels Book 2) (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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Lucifer Box, His Majesty's most daringand depravedsecret agent returns in a mystery set some twenty years after the scandalous events of The Vesuvius Club. This time he faces treachery within his own service and a fascist messiah with a peculiarly Satanic design...
Lucifer Boxthe gorgeous butterfly of King Bertie's reign, portraitist, dandy and terribly good secret agentis feeling his age. Assigned to observe the activities of fascist leader Olympus Mons and his fanatical Amber Shirts in a snowbound 1920s New York, Box finds himself framed for a vicious murder.
Using all his native cunning, Box escapes aboard a vessel bound for England armed only with a Broadway midget's suitcase and a string of unanswered questions. What lies hidden in the bleak Norfolk convent of St Bede? What is the lamb that Olympus Mons searches for in his bid for world domination? And what has all this to do with a medieval prayer intended to summon the Devil himself?
From the glittering sophistication of Art Deco Manhattan to the eerie Norfolk coast and the snowcapped peaks of Switzerland The Devil in Amber takes us on a thrilling ride that pits Lucifer Box against the most lethal adversary of his career: the Prince of Darkness himself.

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‘‘The devil and Diana Mitford’ – After the success of his first Lucifer Box novel, the League of Gentleman’s Mark Gatiss turned his attention to the thrilling tales of the 1920s and 1930s to inspire his colourful sequel’ Independent on Sunday 29/10
‘Gatiss is one of the League of Gentlemen and this hugely entertaining piece of high camp glitters with that TV show’s trademark felicities… Impeccable pastiche’ The Times 4/11
‘There are times when Lucifer Box, Gatiss's secret agent, in the thick of another hopeless situation, is bounding fearlessly towards danger, when you can almost sense the author's smirk of triumph. He knows that the reader will be persuaded, against all logic or common sense, to carry on guzzling. The League of Gentleman's Mr Gatiss has the knack of readability in spades’ Scotland on Sunday 5/11
‘He seems bursting with ideas for cracking plots. As well as those outlined in the inner jacket’s advertisements, Lucifer frequently hints at his own back catalogue with a parenthetical “that’s another story”. The Lucifer Box shocker series seems destined to continue’ Daily Telegraph 23/12
'Gatiss' language is full of light-hearted witticisms and elegance. The logic and drive of Sherlock Holmes blends with the seductive thrill of Hitchcock as Box's idiosyncrasies and quintessential Englishness are drawn out. Known for his love of the macabre and the surreal, the spiritual twist at the close of the novel proves that Gatiss wasn't a one-hit wonder and Box has plenty more adventures left in him' Big Issue 6/11
'Put simply, this second outing for Box is Sherlock Holmes meets Flashman in The Temple of Doom' GQ, December issue
'This is his follow-up to his brilliantly received The Vesuvius Club… Gatiss has carried it off again' Henry Sutton, Book of the Week, Daily Mirror 24/11
‘Gatiss having affectionately pastiched Sherlock Holmes et al, has moved on to the likes of G.K. Chesterton and Sapper in a caper which manages to make fascism and devil-worship amusing’ Sunday Telegraph 8/7
‘Only lightning wits and dazzling good looks can Box, and indeed the world… But never fear. The Devil in Amber is as elegant as its title suggests, a jewel with a dark heart’ Guardian 7/7
‘Lucifer Box is the kind of 1920s secret agent who delights in rushing in where angels fear to tread’ Independent on Sunday 15/7
‘Gatiss…demonstrates in this action-packed romp that his inventiveness is unflagging’ Sunday Times 22/7
‘It’s a heady mix, narrated by Box throughout and it doesn’t let up for a second… It’s both a tribute and a pastiche to those daredevil adventures which we all hoped our spies were up to. So, be seduced by Lucifer; you wouldn’t be the first’ Daily Express 3/8
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Mark Gatiss is one of The League of Gentlemen from the multi-award winning television show, and the author of the hit novels The Vesuvius Club and its sequel The Devil in Amber. He has also written acclaimed radio and television scripts, including episodes of Doctor Who and Poirot. He has a thick comma of hair that will never stay in place and a rather cruel mouth. --Questo testo si riferisce a un'edizione alternativa kindle_edition.

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At last! LUCIFER BOX, His Majesty's most daring - and dissolute - secret agent returns in a mystery set some twenty years after the scandalous events of the bestselling THE VESUVIUS CLUB. This time he faces treachery within his own service and a fascist messiah with a peculiarly Satanic design…
'Impeccable pastiche' THE TIMES
'Bursting with ideas for cracking plots...the Lucifer Box shocker series seems destined to continue'
Daily Telegraph
'If you like your adventures rollicking and your heroes camp, then Lucifer Box is your man' OBSERVER
'Delicious, depraved, inventive, macabre and hilarious...more, I want more!' Stephen Fry
'There are times when Lucifer Box, Gatiss's secret agent, in the thick of another hopeless situation, is bounding fearlessly towards danger, when you can almost sense the author's smirk of triumph. He knows that the reader will be persuaded, against all logic or common sense, to carry on guzzling. The League of Gentleman's Mr Gatiss has the knack of readability in spades' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
[FRONT INSIDE COVER PRINT]
Lucifer Box - the gorgeous butterfly of King Bertie's reign, portraitist, dandy and terribly good secret agent - is feeling his age. Assigned to observe the activities of fascist leader Olympus Mons and his fanatical Amber Shirts in a snow-bound 1920s New York, Box finds himself framed for a vicious murder.
Using all his native cunning, Box escapes aboard a vessel bound for England armed only with a Broadway midget's suitcase and a string of unanswered questions. What lies hidden in the bleak Norfolk convent of St Bede? What is 'the lamb' that Olympus Mons searches for in his bid for world domination? And what has all this to do with a medieval prayer intended to summon the Devil himself?
From the glittering sophistication of Art Deco Manhattan to the eerie Norfolk coast and the snow-capped peaks of Switzerland The Devil in Amber takes us on a thrilling ride that pits Lucifer Box against the most lethal adversary of his career : the Prince of Darkness himself.
[BACK INSIDE COVER PRINT
[MARK GATISS AUTHOR PIC]
Mark Gatiss is one of THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN from the multi-award winning television show. As well as THE LEAGUE he has written for THE GUARDIAN, RADIO 4 and DOCTOR WHO.
He is the twenty-seventh most dangerous man in Islington.
[PACK SHOTS OF THE VESUVIUS CLUB AND OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL]
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Lucifer Box - the gorgeous butterfly of King Bertie's reign, portraitist, dandy and terribly good secret agent - is feeling his age. Assigned to observe the activities of fascist leader Olympus Mons and his fanatical Amber Shirts in a snow-bound 1920s New York, Box finds himself framed for a vicious murder.
Using all his native cunning, Box escapes aboard a vessel bound for England armed only with a Broadway midget's suitcase and a string of unanswered questions. What lies hidden in the bleak Norfolk convent of St Bede? What is 'the lamb' that Olympus Mons searches for in his bid for world domination? And what has all this to do with a medieval prayer intended to summon the Devil himself?
From the glittering sophistication of Art Deco Manhattan to the eerie Norfolk coast and the snow-capped peaks of Switzerland The Devil in Amber takes us on a thrilling ride that pits Lucifer Box against the most lethal adversary of his career : the Prince of Darkness himself.

ark Gatiss is one of THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN from the multi-award winning television show. As well as THE LEAGUE he has written for THE GUARDIAN, RADIO 4 and the new series of DOCTOR WHO.
He is the twenty-seventh most dangerous man in Islington. --Questo testo si riferisce a un'edizione alternativa kindle_edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000NY122S
Editore ‏ : ‎ Scribner (9 gennaio 2007)
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 1145 KB
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Miglioramenti tipografici ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Non abilitato
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Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 258 pagine

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Secondo romanzo di Mark Gatiss, seconda storia su Lucifer Box. L’idea dello scrittore di creare tre storie diverse, in tre contesti storici diversi, funziona alla perfezione. Non ci si stanca mai di Box e si vorrebbe che la storia non finisse mai.

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Dopo "The Vesuvius Club" Lucifer Box è un po' invecchiato ma con lo smalto e l'acume di sempre.Avvincente e surreale ti tiene incollato dalla prima all'ultima pagina. Peccato che non sia disponibile tradotto in Italiano, avrebbe un gran seguito.

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The 27th most dangerous man in Islington strikes again!

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Mark Gatiss' splendid second book in his Lucifer Box trilogy catches up with our eponymous hero twenty years after the Edwardian adventures of `The Vesuvius Club'.

Lucifer is now middle aged and feeling under threat from a new generation of secret agents. He's still beautiful and his body lean (as he informs the reader from time to time) but there is now a subtle underlying wariness and vulnerability to Box, which somehow matches the late 1920s historical setting & the darker plotline.

The story opens with Lucifer's latest mission, a hit on a New York gangster, in a cold, wintry 1920s New York. He receives unrequested help in this matter from Percy Flarge, one of the young challengers to Box's supreme position as `the best'.

It is amid this art deco New York setting that Box is assigned to observe the activities of F.A.U.S.T fascist leader Olympus Mons & find out about the possible threat he and his band of Amber Shirts may pose.

That threat becomes terrifyingly clear as the brilliantly fast paced and exciting adventure develops. Mons is a fascist Satanist who will stop at nothing to harness the forces of darkness & have the Devil himself at his side in his bid for world power!

`The Devil in Amber' makes you reel at the inventiveness on display - a thrilling plot that is dynamic and gripping, it will leave you breathless as it builds to its dramatic conclusion.

Mark Gatiss' brilliant use of language helps create such tension and atmosphere as well providing an unerringly convincing historical setting. His writing is also effortlessly witty - this book appeals on so many different levels.

The comic tone in `The Devil in Amber' is much darker than `The Vesuvius Club'. This is partly due to the plot, which takes in the rise of Fascism, satanic threats and the spectre of the Devil.

There is however also a melancholic undercurrent which suffuses the whole book too. Lucifer is one of the generation who survived the First World War & there are subtle expressions of vulnerability, mortality and sad, bitter memories - none more so than when Box pays a solitary visit to a lonely war memorial in the unforgiving cold of the Swiss countryside.

This is reflected in the terser, colder language which skilfully matches & plays with the popular adventure genre of the late 1920s and 1930s period.

There is light to balance the shade. Lucifer Box's first person narration provides one liners which drip from his lips with ease, as if he were casually tapping ash from a lit cigarette. Not only are they extremely funny but they encapsulate his personality wonderfully.

Lucifer has a very memorable adversary in Olympus Mons. The descriptions of Mons' Hitlerian rages are fantastic. You really do feel you are in the presence of a psychotic, unhinged megalomaniac.

I also have to mention, in complete contrast to the demonic Mons, the wonderful Mrs Croup, who comes to Lucifer's aid. An aged, sex starved Australian who is obsessed with real life murders & collects newspaper cuttings on them, she is a superb comic grotesque, whose sayings made me laugh out loud.

The quality of `The Devil in Amber' is too damn good to be just an entertaining pastiche of a Boy's Own adventure of the period. Both of Mark's Lucifer Box books are fantastic reads in their own right & with the narrative arcs, background stories and attention to detail that The League of Gentlemen have always provided, we can only hope for many further Lucifer Box stories to come.

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Scots Lass

Good Fun - But It Does Not "Follow On" From Book 1

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Just as witty, enjoyable and fun to read as The Vesuvious Club, this second Lucifer Box novel will be well received by fans, however, it seems strange that Mark Gatiss has opted to move the action forward some 25 years, aging his hero and sadly dispensing with characters who were so fondly established in the first book and who looked like being a feature throughout Lucifer Box's Secret Service career. It's a bit like reading the second 'Bertie Wooster' book only to find him middle-aged, the mad and bossy Aunties long dead and Jeeves moved on....!

The dwarfish boss, Joshua Reynolds, is no more and the rollicking sauce-bottle of a side kick, Charlie Jackpot, who swaggered into Lucifer's life so memorably in book one and was all set to be 'Watson' (with benefits!!!) to his 'Holmes', merits just two mentions - the second being an unexpected postscript. Christopher Miracle, Box's best friend, is a pale shadow of his glorious self and although Lucifer himself is still a delightful narrater for the reader, I think Mark should rethink his writing and bring us a book which begins with our hero returning from the trials and tribulations of the Vesuvious club in Naples during the "Naughty 1900's" (surely the most fitting period of history for his wonderful wit and talents) to his home at number 9 Downing Street (someone has to live there) with Charlie at his side and Joshua Reynolds ready with more assignments....

Please, Mr Gatiss?

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Harry Harrison

Raffles and Bond meet Blatty

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 27 novembre 2017

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Not a believer in all the old biblical nonsense, but it does always make for scary yarns. Devils and such like was not what I had expected from this novel . I liked the protagonist who I suppose was based on the kind character usually portrayed by Mr Gatiss. The bi-sexual leanings of Lucifer Box was a nice touch, although nothing new. However, given the era in which the story is set, the hero of the piece is set up as most assuredly, an anti-hero of the best or worst kind. Flawed characters are very popular, makes us feel that we, flawed humans, have a connection and that the character in our subjective viewpoints, is, well, likable, even if said character, does, not so nice, tthings

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Terry Adlam

He's Back!

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 4 marzo 2017

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Another fun filled Lucifer Box over the top adventure. Think James Bond meets Sherlock Holmes meets Oscar Wilde and you'll get the measure of this hero. A book and character that is crying to be transferred to the screen!

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Michael Morley

Entertaining

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A quirky character, more like Flashman than James Bond. A bit muddled at the start, but the tale gets better as it goes along, and is an entertaining light read.

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