The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi: The Burton and Swinburne Adventures

Mark Hodder

Penguin Random House, Aug 7, 2014 - Fiction - 580 pages

The Beast has been summoned.
History will be unmade.

Freshly knighted by King George V for discovering the source of the Nile, Sir Richard Francis Burton has been made an agent of the Crown.

His mission: solve a series of high profile disappearances and âe" even more astonishing âe" locate the spirit of a dead mystic, Abdu el Yezdi.

Burton and Swinburne are back and fighting for their very existence...

About the author

A former BBC writer, editor, journalist and Web producer, Mark Hodder has worked in all the new and traditional medias. He was based in London for most of his working life until 2008, when he relocated to Valencia in Spain.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi: The Burton and Swinburne Adventures; Volume 4 of Burton and Swinburne; Del Rey Books; The Burton & Swinburne adventures
• Author: Mark Hodder
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2014
• ISBN: 0091950635, 9780091950637
• Length: 580 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General