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Gentlemen and players / Joanne Harris.

by Harris, Joanne, 1964-

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Harper Perennial, 2007.

Boarding schools -- Fiction.

Revenge -- Fiction.

Boys -- Fiction.

England -- Fiction.

Harris, Joanne, 1964- Malbry series ; bk. 2.

9780060559151 (trade pbk.)

1st Harper Perennial ed.

422, 16 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes P.S.: insights, interviews & more.

"For generations, elite young men have attended St. Oswald’s School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric classics teacher who has been a revered fixture for more than 30 years. But this year, things are different. Suits, paperwork, and Information Technology rule the world, and Straitley is reluctantly contemplating retirement. He is joined in this, his 99th, term by five new faculty members, including one who -- unknown to Straitley and everyone else -- holds intimate and dangerous knowledge of St. Ozzie’s ways and secrets, it’s comforts and conceits. Harboring dark ties to the school’s past, this young teacher has arrived with one terrible goal: Destroy St. Oswald’s. As the new term gets underway, a number of incidents befall students and faculty alike. Beginning as small annoyances -- a lost pen, a misplaced coffee mug -- they soon escalate to the life threatening. With the school unraveling, only Straitley stands in the way of St. Ozzie’s ruin. But the old man faces a formidable opponent -- a master player with a strategy that has been meticulously planned to the final move."--publisher's website.

Suspense fiction.

Psychological thriller.

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