Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson - First Edition Hardback 2003 space exploration the boys overhear a conversation

the boys overhear a conversation between two suspicious-looking Italians which immediately arouses their detective instincts

attacks the girl's corpse

through Cathy's marriage to Edgar Linton and Heathcliff's plans for revenge

But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure

Publisher blurb: "At first

Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson - First Edition Hardback 2003 space exploration the boys overhear a conversationCondition: Acceptable. See images for more details. This is a first edition hardback. Blurb: In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque era Europe in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. Series: Book 1