The Geographer's Library cover art

The Geographer's Library

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
1 credit a month to buy any audiobook in our entire collection.
Access to thousands of additional audiobooks and Originals from the Plus Catalogue.
Member-only deals & discounts.
Auto-renews at $16.45/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

The Geographer's Library

By: Jon Fasman
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Try Premium Plus free

Auto-renews at $16.45/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $48.76

Buy Now for $48.76

About this listen

 When a 12-century Sicilian cat burglar snatches a sack of artifacts from the king's geographer's library, the tools and talismans of transmutation, and eternal life, are soon scattered all over the world. Nine hundred years later, a young Connecticut reporter finds evidence that someone is collecting them again.

In the process of investigating the suspicious death of a local professor, Paul Tomm finds the dead man's heavily fortified office stuffed with books on alchemy. The Geographer's Library entwines his contemporary reporting with a chain of ancient stories-within-the-story, tracking the last time each of the geographer's tools changed hands; some bought, some stolen, some killed for.

The Geographer's Library is an extraordinary debut, smart, stylishly written, and full of suspense. It tempts with the glitter of antiquities and hooks with a chilling plot.

©2005 Jon Fasman (P)2005 Penguin Audio and Books on Tape, Inc. Action & Adventure Espionage Historical Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense

Critic Reviews

"One of the year's most literate and absorbing entertainments." (Kirkus Reviews)

"Fasman’s fast-paced tale is almost all plot... These characters are better drawn than those in The Da Vinci Code." (Newsweek)

"A brainy noir... [a] winningly cryptic tale...a cabinet of wonders written by a novelist whose surname and sensibility fit comfortably on the shelf between Umberto Eco and John Fowles." (Los Angeles Times)
No reviews yet
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.