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Lexicon
Although Lexicon starts off fairly slowly, it's not long before it picked up and I completely engrossed in the story. This book has a great plot line that ... READ MORE
Gripping thriller
Words are powerful, words can be weapons.
There is a class of elite linguists, the poets, who know certain words that can short-circuit filters in the brai... READ MORE
Lexicon
Emily is picked off the streets because of her ability to read people and use the right words to persuade them to go along with her street cons.
Wil seems... READ MORE
Words have power
Max Barry might not be an author that you are familiar with and you may have missed Lexicon when it came out in hardback last year but, out now in paperbac... READ MORE
Synopsis
Sticks and stones break bones.
Words kill.
They recruited Emily from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words.
They'll live to regret it.
Wil survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember it.
Now they're after him and he doesn't know why.
There's a word, they say. It shouldn't have got out. But it did.
And they want it back...
Find out why in one of the most mind-bending, page-turning, thrilling novels you'll ever read.
*Winner of the Aurealis Award for science fiction and GoodReads Choice Awards finalist for best science fiction*
Publisher information
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN: 9781444764680
- Number of pages: 400
- Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 26 mm
- Weight: 285g
- Languages: English