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An astonishing historical novel occur the shadowy, sensational forests of South America, which attracts on the captivating world of the international best vendor The Watchmaker of Filigree Block. Deep in uncharted Peru, the holy town of Bedlam stands at the advantage of a forest. The shrine statues move, and anyone who crosses the border dies. But anywhere inside are cinchona trees and shrubs, whose bark yields quinine: the sole known treatment for malaria. On the far side of the Pacific, it is 1859, and India is ravaged by the condition. The search for a reliable way to obtain quinine is crucial, and in its desperation the India Office searches out its last qualified expeditionary. Fighting a terrible damage from his last mission and the bizarre occurrences at his family's ruined real estate, Merrick Tremayne sees himself under purchases to recreate cinchona cuttings at any cost and dispatched, against his own better view, to Bedlam. There he complies with Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettlingly familiar tales of impossible disappearances and living natural stone. Slowly but surely Tremayne realises that Raphael is the key to a legacy remaining by two decades of Tremayne explorers before him, one that will prove more dangerous and valuable than the India Office could ever have imagined.
