The Vesuvius Club

Download or read book Vesuvius Club written by Mark Gatiss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Lucifer Box: Equal parts James Bond and Sherlock Holmes, with a twist of Monty Python and a dash of Austin Powers, Lucifer has a charming countenance and rapier wit that make him the guest all hostesses must have. And most do. But few of his conquests know that Lucifer is also His Majesty's most daring secret agent, at home in both London's Imperial grandeur and in its underworld of despicable vice. So when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to for help. Following a dinnertime assassination, Lucifer is dispatched to uncover the whereabouts of missing agent Jocelyn Poop. Along the way he will give art lessons, be attacked by a poisonous centipede, bed a few choice specimens, and travel to Italy on business and pleasure. Aided by his henchwoman Delilah; the beautiful, mysterious, and Dutch Miss Bella Pok; his boss, a dwarf who takes meetings in a lavatory; grizzled vulcanologist Emmanuel Quibble; and the impertinent, delicious, right-hand-boy Charlie Jackpot, Lucifer Box deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (somebody has to live there) to the ruined city of Pompeii, to infiltrate a highly dangerous secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its clawlike grip--the Vesuvius Club.

Download or read book The Devil in Amber written by Mark Gatiss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an assignment in New York almost costs him his life, Box comes across a mysterious parchment that appears to be of interest to a megalomaniacal fascist leader, Olympus Mons, who heads an international band named F.A.U.S.T., an acronym for the Fascist Anglo-United States Trinity. Box's chance discovery that his sister, Pandora, has become part of Mons's inner circle provides him with an in, leading him back across the Atlantic, and in and out of a variety of sexual encounters.

Download or read book Black Butterfly written by Mark Gatiss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knave. Joker. Queen. Lucifer Box is back! The hero of The Vesuvius Club and The Devil in Amber returns with an artistic licence to kill, and the deadliest mission of his career. A new Queen has been crowned, an old enemy has resurfaced and the world is about to be embraced by the lethal wings of the Black Butterfly.... Lucifer Box. He's tall, he's dark and, like the shark, he looks for trouble. Or so he wishes. For, with Queen Elizabeth newly established on her throne, the now elderly secret agent is reaching the end of his scandalous career. Despite his fast-approaching retirement, however, queer events leave Box unable to resist investigating one last case.... Why have pillars of the Establishment started dying in reckless accidents? Who are the deadly paymasters of enigmatic assassin Kingdom Kum? And who...or what...is the mysterious Black Butterfly? From the seedy streets of Soho to the souks of Istanbul and the sun-drenched shores of Jamaica, Box must use his artistic licence to confront and kill an enemy with its roots in his own notorious past. Can Lucifer Box save the day before the dying of the light?

Download or read book The Vesuvius Club written by Mark Gatiss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Extraordinary and Death-Defying Tour of Edwardian Low Life and High Society, accompanied by our host Lucifer Box Esq - artist, dandy, rake ... and lethal secret agent. Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde - society's most fashionable portrait painter is a wit, a dandy, a rake, the guest all hostesses (and not a few hosts) must have. But few know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most accomplished and daring secret agent. Beneath London's façade of Imperial grandeur and divine aesthetes seethes an underworld of crazed anarchists, murder, and despicable vice, and Box is at home in both. And so of course when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to. Lucifer Box ruthlessly deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (all his father left him), to private stews of London and the seediest, most colourful back alleys of Italy, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club.

Download or read book The Vesuvius Club written by Mark Gatiss and published by Simon & Schuster (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Gatiss' cult creation, Lucifer Box, as you've never seen him before--in a new graphic-novel edition of his first adventure! On it's first publication, Mark Gatiss' The Vesuvius Clubwas critically acclaimed as an inspired cult creation. Now you are invited, more intimately, into the world of Lucifer Box, as his first adventure plays out in this graphic-novel edition. Here, Lucifer Box--the greatest portraitist of the Edwardian age and England's most dashing secret agent--investigates a series of bizarre disappearances and plunges headlong into low life and high society. Who is killing Britain's most prominent vulcanologists? What secrets lie beyond the grave? See him...Confront the purple undead. Instruct the mysterious and beguiling Bella Pok. Disguise himself with a false mustache. Face an ominous evil in the depths of a volcano. And come to grips with his new manservant, Charlie Jackpot. A fiendishly unputdownable treat for "the discerning mature reader."

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Download or read book The Apocalypse Trigger written by Douglas Misquita and published by Douglas Misquita. This book was released on with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AD 42: A drunken wager over an imminent natural disaster gives rise to the Vesuvius Group. Over the centuries, their power and wealth have flourished. Today, they influence the upper echelons of World Order. The member families continue the tradition of macabre, and arrogant wagers. 1947: A ship in the Malacca Straits broadcasts a distress signal. When help arrives, her crew is discovered dead... because somebody wanted to acquire the ship's cargo. Present day: A C160 transporting 'clean energy' cells developed by Future Energy Group crashes into the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia. The incident claims the lives of two indigenous children. A violent confrontation pits FEG's chief of security, Luc Fortesque, against one of the victims' father, Billy Bradford... and exposes FEG to an international investigation. In a bid to return to his employer's good graces, Luc Fortesque agrees to 'acquire' weapons technology from a Chinese rival. Unwittingly, he lends himself to the final act of a grand scheme of revenge that dates to the end of World War II. In the aftermath of a devastating attack on the world's grandest luxury hotel, Sebastian Laporte is on the Most Wanted List of every law enforcement agency in the world. But his actions have made him a prime candidate to execute the ultimate suicide mission. Amid all this, Billy Bradford and Luc Fortesque must put aside their personal war and become the men they once were to prevent an... apocalypse.