![]() ![]() ![]() The covert subterranean world of the Elder Ministries is cobbled together from high-tech gimcrackery, steampunk affectations, and coy allusions to British literature both famous and obscure the clues shaping Jack and Gwen’s quest are mostly tourist-y factoids. Hannibal crafts an adventure with brisk pacing but little originality or internal logic. He teams up with Gwen Kincaid, spunky white Ministry of Trackers clerk and detective-in-training, in a mad scramble across past and present London for a mysterious deadly artifact capable of starting a second Great Fire. ![]() Discovering that everything he knew-even his name!-was a lie is only the beginning of a very weird day for 13-year-old Jack Buckles.Īll-American white boy Jack stumbles across his secret heritage as a forbidden 13th generation of top-secret “trackers” with supersensory abilities, operating under the cover of the Lost Property Office. ![]()
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