The Orb and the Architect - Softcover

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A teenage boy’s race to find an alien signalling device hidden somewhere in London by Christopher Wren. In December 1664, a comet appeared over England, returning again in March the following year. People regarded it with dread and superstition, believing it brought war, pestilence and disaster. They were right.Like most London schoolboys, fourteen-year-old Jamie Shepherd knows all about the Great Fire of London in 1666, and how it followed on the heels of the Great Plague, but it’s all ancient history to him. Until he finds an old key on the banks of the River Thames and people start falling ill.Suddenly, history seems an awful lot closer.

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