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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
Two years ago, something terrible was unleashed in an Australian mining town called Broken Hill. Thousands died.
Few people know what really happened.
Emily Ruff is one of them. She belongs to an elite organisation of 'poets': masters of manipulation who use language to warp others to their will. She was one of their most promising recruits until she made a catastrophic mistake: she fell in love.
Wil Parke knows the truth too, only he doesn't remember it. And he doesn't know why he's immune to the poets' powers. But he knows he needs to run.
As their stories converge, the past is revealed, and the race is on for a deadly weapon: a word.
Because the poets know that words can kill...
Publisher information
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN: 9781444764659
- Number of pages: 400
- Dimensions: 239 x 158 x 35 mm
- Weight: 662g