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Chris Fallon, the idol of William Martin's best-selling book Back Bay, has discovered proof that the precious value-an unknown Shakespeare play-is concealed somewhere within the venerable halls of Harvard College. An antiquarian who appreciates most of the collegeis carefully guarded techniques, Fallon recognizes the strong effects of the breakthrough. But as he goes in to the college's past-from witch hangings for the fires of the Civil War for the riotous 1960s-he discovers that women and men have risked death, banishment, and shame in search of this priceless relic. And, as he reveals rifts between decades, fans, friends, and people, Fallon starts to comprehend another thing: that finding this manuscript is just a matter of death and life.