Deze serie dompelt lezers onder in een wereld waar oude boeken en moderne technologie samenkomen, en ontrafelt mysteries van het eeuwige leven en cryptische complotten. Volg een jonge protagonist terwijl hij geheime codes ontcijfert en een verborgen samenleving ontdekt die verbonden is met een bijzondere boekwinkel. Het is een spannend avontuur over vriendschap, liefde en de zoektocht naar kennis in het digitale tijdperk.
August 1969 San Francisco. Ajax Penumbra seeks a book--the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. Late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends, he stumbles across a 24-hour bookstore, and the possibilities before him expand exponentially.
San Francisco, 1969. The summer of drugs, music and a new age dawning. A young, earnest Ajax Penumbra has been given his first assignment as a Junior Acquisitions Officer - to find the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. After a few weeks of rigorous hunting, Penumbra feels no closer to his goal than when he started. But late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends, he stumbles upon a 24-hour bookstore and the possibilities before him expand exponentially. With the help of his friend's homemade computer, an ancient map, a sunken ship and the vast shelves of the 24-hour bookstore, Ajax Penumbra might just find what he's seeking...