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Ryder. Bird of prey : an Ayesha Ryder novel / Nick Pengelley.

by Pengelley, Nicholas.

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, c2015.

Women scholars -- Fiction.

Assassins -- Fiction.

Pengelley, Nicholas. Ayesha Ryder novels ; 3.

9781443439039 (trade pbk.)

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289 p. ; 23 cm.

The Maltese Falcon was no mere legend-this fabulously jeweled golden bird really existed. Still exists, according to the last words of a dying man. Ayesha Ryder is on its trail, but not just to find the Falcon itself. It is said to contain a clue to the lost burial place of King Harold of England, a potent symbol for ruthless politicians determined to break up the UK and create a new, independent English Kingdom. The Falcon may also contain a second clue, one that few would believe. Labelled an assassin, hunted by Scotland Yard and Dame Imogen Worsely of MI5-as well as those who want the Falcon and its secrets for themselves--Ayesha joins forces with Joram Tate, the mysterious librarian known to her friend Lady Madrigal, a one-time lover of Lawrence of Arabia. As Ayesha's attraction to Tate grows, they follow clues left by long-dead knights to the tomb of a Saxon king and to the ruined Battle Abbey. When the trail leads them to a stunning secret hidden for a thousand years beneath an English castle, Ayesha must battle modern killers with medieval weapons before confronting the evil that would destroy her nation.

Suspense fiction.

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