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The Life Assistance Agency

The Life Assistance Agency

Author(s): Thomas Hocknell

Location(s): Prague, Europe, Krakow, London

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Various

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Do you want to live forever? is THE question facing anyone pursuing immortality. But what happens when eternal life is disappointing, and everyone around you keeps dying? Ben Ferguson-Cripps, a struggling writer with a surname that gets more attention than his creative endeavours, sets aside his literary ambitions to join the mysterious Life Assistance Agency. Their first case is to trace a missing person with links to the Elizabethan angel-caller Dr John Dee. Pursued by a shadowy organisation – and the ghosts of Ben’s past – the trail leads through Europe into the historic streets of Prague, where the long-buried secrets of Dr Dee’s achievements are finally revealed, and Ben discovers there is far more to life than simply living…

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Author: tripfiction

Hocknell’s debut novel takes us on a journey through Europe – past and present – as his central character, Ben Ferguson-Cripps, attempts to hunt down missing historian, Thomas Foxe. Ben is the rather cynical,...

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