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Description for Technologists
Paperback. Well-read paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by technological 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. Nothing in nature can do this: these are man-made disasters. Someone has unleashed the destructive potential of science on an innocent population. The city's fate relies on four young students of the recently founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Marcus Mansfield, a Civil War veteran determined to repay MIT's founder for taking a chance on him, ... Read more
Spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by technological 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. Nothing in nature can do this: these are man-made disasters. Someone has unleashed the destructive potential of science on an innocent population. The city's fate relies on four young students of the recently founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Marcus Mansfield, a Civil War veteran determined to repay MIT's founder for taking a chance on him, ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
1st Edition
Yes
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846550874
SKU
KIN0007225
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
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, The Poe Shadow and, most recently, The Last Dickens. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College.
Reviews for 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 The best yet from a true master of the historical thriller. I loved this novel Joseph Finder, author ... Read more
Tess Gerritsen The best yet from a true master of the historical thriller. I loved this novel Joseph Finder, author ... Read more