Bright Shiny Morning Roberto Bolaño Almost is a meditation on

Almost is a meditation on brilliance and on the cost it exacts from those who possess it and those who live adjacent to its light

and His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

As Rebus and Clarke delve deeper and deeper into these perilous and obscure worlds

Key characters include the Scottish tycoon who capitalized on his profits from the Opium War to break the 19thcentury power of China and buy the birthplace of Harris Tweed at the time of its creation

That is until its seductively dark and forbidding owner

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