The Technologists
Matthew Pearl
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Description for The Technologists
Paperback. Spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by a series of mysterious attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames, then in another bizarre catastrophe every piece of glass in the financial district spontaneously melts - clocks, windows, eyeglasses. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 398.
A city held to ransom. A brave few determined to fight. A race against time.
Spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by a series of mysterious attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames, then in another bizarre catastrophe every piece of glass in the financial district spontaneously melts - clocks, windows, eyeglasses. The city's fate relies on four young students: Civil War veteran Marcus Mansfield, brash Bob Richards, meticulous Edwin Hoyt and the eccentric but brilliant Ellen Swallow. Together, they are The Technologists. In a climate of rising ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099512769
SKU
9780099512769
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Matthew Pearl
Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. His other books include The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Reviews for The Technologists
THE TECHNOLOGISTS combines everything I love in a thriller: fascinating history, science, and a frightening mystery that demands to be solved. Matthew Pearl is one of my must-read authors. He never fails to intrigue and thrill
Tess Gerritsen An ingenious, sometimes terrifying, historical thriller
Independent
Vivid…frightening… The Technologists is a marvel
Washington Post
Pearl takes ... Read more
Tess Gerritsen An ingenious, sometimes terrifying, historical thriller
Independent
Vivid…frightening… The Technologists is a marvel
Washington Post
Pearl takes ... Read more