The Rook: A Novel

By Daniel O'Malley

"The physique you're donning was once mine." So starts the letter Myfanwy Thomas is preserving while she awakes in a London park surrounded via our bodies all donning latex gloves. with out recollection of who she is, Myfanwy needs to keep on with the directions her former self left at the back of to find her id and song down the brokers who are looking to ruin her.

She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a mystery association known as the Chequy that battles the various supernatural forces at paintings in Britain. She additionally discovers that she possesses an extraordinary, in all probability lethal supernatural skill of her personal.

In her quest to discover which member of the Chequy betrayed her and why, Myfanwy encounters someone with 4 our bodies, an aristocratic lady who can input her goals, a mystery education facility the place teenagers are remodeled into lethal warring parties, and a conspiracy extra big than she ever can have imagined.

Filled with characters either attention-grabbing and fantastical, THE ROOK is a richly creative, suspenseful, and sometimes wry mystery that marks an bold debut from a promising younger author.

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Now, i've got had a really lengthy day, i've got a splitting headache, and i'm going domestic. ” each person her as she walked out, and hers was once the 1st vehicle to drag up. It whisked her away to Myfanwy Thomas’s condo. 12 pricey You, I’ve learned that I by no means completely defined to you ways I got here to grasp that i might lose my reminiscence. I suggest, I’ve pointed out that there have been psychics—but that’s approximately all I’ve instructed you. Sorry approximately that. Psychics usually are not usually held within the maximum esteem within the Checquy. i do know, it sort of feels love it stands out as the most typical and the main priceless kind of energy round. in the end, everyone’s granny is meant on the way to learn tea leaves. And what will be of better use within the Checquy than understanding what another person is considering or what's going to occur sooner or later? Plus, it'd be supremely invaluable for investment reasons. yet actually, real psychics are rarer than infrequent, and additional tough to realize. “I’m getting an impact… that you’re taking into account… this! Am I correct? No? good, does that suggest something to you? It does? See, I’m psychic! ” Even worse are the imprecise predictions and prophecies that appear to might be have come actual. if you happen to examine them together with your eyes type of squinted. really, the simplest psychics are those who by no means discover they’re psychic and as an alternative have the ability to dwell very good lives via regularly making the correct judgements. Their powers successfully consultant them in the course of the shoals of lifestyles with out their figuring out. And one significant shoal has a tendency to be the Checquy. the easiest psychics pop up on our radar purely after they’ve died, while their powers not continue them out of our sight. there are such a lot of striking fakes round, and it’s this type of imprecise kind of energy besides, that the Checquy keeps a truly skeptical stance. (This is partially the results of a frantic weeks below a prior Lord in which the contributors of the full association had orders to imprison any tall darkish stranger they met. ) We’re way more more likely to settle for topic may have the ability to show humans into footstools than that he can learn minds or see the longer term. the nearest we’re prone to get are the palm-reading efforts of Dr. Crisp, and he bargains merely with a person’s earlier. So whilst i began receiving warnings from random humans, i used to be doubtful. the 1st prediction got here in the course of a lunch break—one of these infrequent events whilst I didn’t have a gathering and wasn’t obliged to consume at my table. It’s a bit eerie to seem again at that. It was once the final day that every one I needed to fear approximately used to be operating an immense govt supplier and coordinating covert operations that take care of the supernatural. It was once the final day that I woke from an untroubled night’s sleep. I’d determined, because it used to be this sort of great afternoon, to move out into the town and get myself a few lunch at a bit pub I knew. once in a while, it’s friendly to stroll round with the traditional humans. after all, one can’t support scanning the passersby trying to find any little tells that provide them away as designated. the educational we obtain is so rigorous that even Checquy table jockeys are regularly searching for an ultra-perfect nail cutting that means self-sharpening retractable claws or a cleverly adapted swimsuit that conceals epidermis made from cheese graters.

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