The Chamber of Ten

by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon

Book Overview

Archaeologist Dr. Geena Hodge is on the precipice of success: her team has found an entrance to an underground chamber while searching for the Petrarch's lost library. A documentarian is joining her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553386565
• ISBN13: 9780553386561
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.4" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Anther fast paced read

Another link in the Hidden Cities series and this one is a winner. Fast paced and creepy, I had a hard time putting it down.

exciting thriller

As Venice is sinking under the sea, residents have already shut down the bottom floors of their homes. American archaeologist Geena Hodge and her assistant lover Nico Lombardi have gotten Italian government permission to save as much of the heritage from the encroaching Adriatic in what is the Bibliotheca project that has BBC filming praying not another Capone vault. Digging in Piazza San Marco, Geena, assisted by Nico and some students, finds Petrarch's library. Beyond the famous lost library, they uncover the fabled Chamber of Ten. However, nothing goes smoothly as the walls collapse allowing flood waters to inundate the chamber. Soon afterward Nico acts insane as he has become possessed by a Renaissance Era mage battling three evil immortals with the city at stake. This is more an exciting thriller than a horror tale. The story line starts off as fast-paced as any tale this year and as vivid (with its dank damp picture of the city), but never quite keeps the accelerator at that incredible opening rate of speed. Still readers will enjoy the Chamber of Ten as the archeologist and her team is caught up in the middle of a centuries old Magical war in which Venice is at stake. Harriet Klausner