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The Technologists
The Technologists
paperback
Published:
7 February, 2013
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Description
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 hysteria, these four courageous individuals must unite against the forces of darkness to uncover the mastermind before he can stage his greatest outrage.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099512769 |
| ISBN10 | 0099512769 |
| Number Of Pages | 576 |
| Item Weight | 395 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 35 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
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 an unusual subject for a thriller and seamlessly weaves historical research and his own inventions into a satisfying story * Sunday Times *
The social background is intriguing ... recommended -- John O'Connell * Guardian *
The best yet from a true master of the historical thriller. I loved this novel * Joseph Finder, author of Buried Secrets and Vanished *
Pearl takes an unusual subject for a thriller and seamlessly weaves historical research and his own inventions into a satisfying story * Sunday Times *
Intriguing -- Alastair Mabbott * Herald *
Matthew Pearl and his research assistant, Gabriella Gage, certainly cannot be faulted on their historical work for this vast novel * Independent on Sunday *
Pioneers of academic science in the US become clue-hunting detectives in Pearl’s vivid, well-researched novel * BBC History Magazine *
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Author's Bio
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.