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...Kingdom” is Thomas’ second novel, and, as in his debut, “Some Danger Involved,” it features the crime-fighting duo of Victorian “private enquiry agent” Cyrus Barker and his young assistant, Thomas Llewelyn. Barker is a sort of Sherlock Holmes on steroids: in addition to possessing a strange omniscience, he is in peak physical condition and can defeat even the most formidable of adversaries in hand-to-hand combat (or, as is inexplicably the case here, stick fighting). He is also a botanist with an Edenic...
...addition to pumping up the detective figure, Thomas’ main innovation is combining the classical detective fiction of Conan Doyle with the hardboiled works of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The two subgenres meet in Llewelyn, the only character with any sort of depth, who narrates his boss’s exploits à la Watson while participating in them with the laconic wit of Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade...
...Kingdom,” Thomas unleashes this team on the urgent subject of terrorism. It is May 30, 1884, and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), a terrorist organization working to liberate the Emerald Isle from British rule, has just detonated a bomb at Scotland Yard. Barker and Llewelyn immediately offer their services to the government and infiltrate a secretive IRB faction, posing as a German bomb maker and his assistant. They must work to earn the group’s trust while preparing to stop its ultimate plan to bring London to its knees—without concern for innocent...
...wife (played by Radha Mitchell) barely speak to one another; and, perhaps unsurprisingly, he prefers the company of his dog and his own imagination to most of his peers. This all changes, however, when he meets a family of muses in the park one afternoon. Barrie quickly befriends Sylvia Llewelyn Davies—played with daring and grace by Kate Winslet—and her four sons Michael, Jack, George and Peter to their mutual benefit; Barrie needs them for inspiration and to inject some warmth into what was rapidly becoming a hollow life and they need him to help...
...wife (played by Radha Mitchell) barely speak to one another, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, he prefers the company of his dog and his own imagination to most of his peers. This all changes, however, when he meets a family of muses in the park one afternoon. Barrie quickly befriends Sylvia Llewelyn Davies—played with daring and grace by Kate Winslet—and her four sons Michael, Jack, George and Peter to their mutual benefit; Barrie needs them for inspiration and to inject some warmth into what was rapidly becoming a hollow life and they need him to help...