The Book of All-Power

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Introducing Malcolm Hay
21:12
A Gun-Man Refuses Work
19:28
The Grand Duchess Irene
24:20
The Prince Who Planned
14:16
The Raid on the Silver Lion
17:04
Prince Serganoff Pays the Price
20:08
Kensky of Kieff
21:22
The Grand Duke is Affable
18:10
The Hand at the Window
17:00
Terror in Making
17:45
The Commissary with the Crooked Nose
13:37
In the Prison of St. Basil
17:38
Cherry Bim Makes a Statement
18:31
In the Holy Village
9:15
The Red Bride
17:07
The Book of All-Power
14:11
On the Road
15:04
The Monastery of St.Basil the Leper
13:24
The End of Boolba
11:42
Chapter the Last
5:09

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About this book

Malcolm Hay is twenty-two, holds a science degree and speaks Russian, which is enough to win him a post at the Ukraine Oil Company's wells in southern Russia. His new chairman warns him that the Russian peasant is the hardest man in the world to read, and that the one name worth knowing is Israel Kensky. In a shabby Maida Vale boarding-house the old bookbinder is already at work on the design for a strange volume with steel covers, which he calls the Book of All-Power, while his daughter Sophia mocks him.

Edgar Wallace carries the story from London into Russia, where Hay crosses paths with the Grand Duchess Irene Yaroslav and her father, her servant Boolba, an outspoken American named Cherry Bim and the commissaries of the new Soviet order. Before long word spreads that Hay holds the book, and that knowledge puts him in danger.

First published in 1921, this is a brisk thriller of secrets, prisons, monasteries and divided loyalties, best for readers who like their adventure fast and their settings far from home.

About the author

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific English writer of crime and adventure fiction, famous for fast-paced thrillers and among the best-selling authors of his era.