THE ORPHEUS DESCENT
Book ID/图书代码： 06140512B57255
English Summary/英文概要： Would you pay the ultimate price for the ultimate knowledge?
I have never written down the answers to the deepest mysteries, nor will I ever... The philosopher Plato wrote these words more than two thousand years ago, following a perilous voyage to Italy -- an experience about which he never spoke again, but from which he emerged the greatest thinker in all of human history.
Today, twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Archaeologist Lily Barnes, working on a dig in southern Italy, has just found another. But this tablet names the location to the mouth of hell itself.
And then Lily vanishes. Has she walked out on her job, her marriage, and her life -- or has something more sinister happened? Her husband, Jonah, is desperate to find her. But no one can help him: not the police and not the secretive foundation that sponsored her dig. All Jonah has is belief, and a determination to do whatever it takes to get Lily back.
But like Plato before him, Jonah will discover the journey ahead is mysterious and dark and fraught with danger. And not everyone who travels to the hidden place where Lily has gone can return.
THE ORPHEUS DESCENT will appeal to the fans of fans of Dan Brown and John Le Carre, Steve Berry and Sam Bourne.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 你会为终极知识付出最大的代价吗？
我从来没有写下最深奥秘的答案，也许这辈子也写不出来…哲学家柏拉图在两千多年前写下这些话，那是在去意大利的危险航行中。这次的经验他从来都没有说过第二遍，但是从其中他获得了很多，并成为人类所有历史上最伟大的思想家。
如今，十二个黄金碑被安置在世界各地的博物馆里，每一个都是被未知的手创造出来的，埋在远古时代，每一个都提供了转世的路线。考古学家莉莉•巴恩斯在意大利南部做挖掘工作，刚刚发现了另一个金碑。但是这个金碑把自己命名为通往地狱之口的地点。
接着莉莉消失了。难道她已经遗弃了自己的工作，婚姻和生活？或者发生了更险恶的事情？她的丈夫约拿不顾一切地找她，但是没有人可以帮助他，无论是警察还是资助莉莉挖掘的神秘基金会。约拿所有的只是不惜一切代价找到莉莉的信念和决心。
但是就像之前的柏拉图，约拿会发现前进的征途充满了神秘、黑暗和危险。而且不是每个前往莉莉所在隐秘地方的人都能安全回来的。
《奥尔甫斯后裔》将会吸引丹•布朗、约翰•勒卡雷、史蒂夫•贝瑞和萨姆•伯恩的书迷成为它的书迷。（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：这本书的版权可售：意大利（康普顿牛顿），希腊（Livanis）期权出版社，德国（罗沃尔特），荷兰（Luiting），捷克共和国（BB艺术）拉脱维亚（Kontinets），土耳其（Pegasus）和塞尔维亚（Alnari）。Rights sold to Italian (Newton Compton), Greece (Livanis) Option publishers: Germany (Rowohlt), Holland (Luiting), Czech Rep (BB Art), , Latvia (Kontinets), Turkey (Pegasus) and in Serbia (Alnari).
About the Author/作者介绍： 汤姆•哈珀于1977年出生在西德，并在德国，比利时和美国长大。曾在林肯学院，牛津大学学习历史，并在世界养老金服务会工作过，现在是一个全职作家。他和妻子带着两个儿子住在纽约。他的书已经被翻译成二十种语言销往世界各地，从巴西到中国。2001年汤姆•哈珀的首本书《荒芜的悬崖》斩获了CWA Debut Dagger Award的亚军。Tom Harper was born in West Germany in 1977 and grew up in Germany, Belgium and America. He studied history at Lincoln College, Oxford, worked for a while in the glamorous world of pensions services, and now writes full time. He lives in York with his wife and two sons. His novels have been sold into twenty languages, from Brazil to China. In 2001 Tom Harper’s debut, The Blighted Cliffs, was the runner up for the CWA Debut Dagger Award.
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