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Violence
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No violence
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
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No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Themes of heroism, historical truth, and the danger of questioning founding myths
What this book is about
The first Alex Benedict novel (1989) follows Alex Benedict, an antique dealer who inherits his uncle's research and finds evidence that Christopher Sim, the great hero of the Ashyyur War, may have been something very different. Gentle, thoughtful SF mystery. For all ages.
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