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The bestselling novel starring Sherlock Holmes's enigmatic brother, from NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Fresh out of Cambridge University, the young Mycroft Holmes is already making a name for himself in government, working for the Secretary of State for War. Yet this most British of civil servants has strong ties to the faraway island of Trinidad, the birthplace of his best friend, Cyrus Douglas, a man of African descent, and where his fiancee Georgiana Sutton was raised.
Mycroft's comfortable existence is overturned when Douglas receives troubling reports from home. There are rumors of mysterious disappearances, strange footprints in the sand, and spirits enticing children to their deaths, their bodies found drained of blood. Upon hearing the news, Georgiana abruptly departs for Trinidad. Near panic, Mycroft convinces Douglas that they should follow her, drawing the two men into a web of dark secrets that grows more treacherous with each step they take...
Written by NBA superstar Kareem Abdul- Jabbar and screenwriter Anna Waterhouse, Mycroft Holmes reveals the untold story of Sherlock's older brother. This harrowing adventure changed his life, and set the stage for the man Mycroft would become: founder of the famous Diogenes Club and the hidden power behind the British government.
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A new novel inspired by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's love of Sherlock Holmes and desire to chronicle the adventures of Mycroft Holmes before he became a recluse Fresh out of university, Mycroft Holmes assists the British Secretary of State for War, and is a rising star in the government. Through his best friend, Cyrus Douglas, he learns of a series of disappearances and murders in Trinidad. They travel there to investigate a deadly situation based on actual history and tied to the slave trade immediately following the American Civil War. What they discover will forever change Holmes, and set him on the path to become the man he will be in the Doyle adventures.
Mycroft Holmes is a fresh Cambridge graduate and assistant secretary of state when his friendship with Cyrus Douglas, an entrepreneur of African descent, causes him to become embroiled in a deadly mystery in Trinidad. Based in part on actual history of the slave trade following the Civil War.
Synopsis
A new novel written by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Fresh out of Cambridge University, the young Mycroft Holmes is already making a name for himself in government, working for the Secretary of State for War. Yet this most British of civil servants has strong ties to the faraway island of Trinidad, the birthplace of his best friend, Cyrus Douglas, a man of African descent, and where his fiancée Georgiana Sutton was raised.
Mycroft's comfortable existence is overturned when Douglas receives troubling reports from home. There are rumors of mysterious disappearances, strange footprints in the sand, and spirits enticing children to their deaths, their bodies found drained of blood. Upon hearing the news, Georgiana abruptly departs for Trinidad. Near panic, Mycroft convinces Douglas that they should follow her, drawing the two men into a web of dark secrets that grows more treacherous with each step they take...
Written by NBA superstar Kareem Abdul- Jabbar and screenwriter Anna Waterhouse, Mycroft Holmes reveals the untold story of Sherlock's older brother. This harrowing adventure changed his life, and set the stage for the man Mycroft would become: founder of the famous Diogenes Club and the hidden power behind the British government.