![]() ![]() ![]() Jess Brightwell is born into a family of book smugglers but he grows up craving the knowledge they contain, not the money they can bring from the right buyer. Original books are highly prized and collectors will pay a fortune to get their hands on them - which means book smugglers will risk their lives to supply that demand. Of course, when anything is strictly controlled there's always a blackmarket for it. This technology is made possible by the powerful Obscurists, a special order of librarians with the innate ability to manipulate the code that underpins the system. Originals are only allowed to exist in the Great Library, from where their contents can be downloaded via the Codex into 'blanks' for people to read. Ownership of private 'original' books is strictly forbidden. The Great Library is now established as an independent country with its own army to protect both it and the books it contains. Set in the near future, this is a world of war and treachery. What if the Great Library of Alexandria was never destroyed? What if the knowledge contained in books was what ruled the world? What if librarians were the most powerful people on earth because they controlled the books? Welcome to Ink and Bone - where all this and more combines to create a story that I couldn't read fast enough. ![]()
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