The Technologists - Couverture souple

Pearl, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846550874 ISBN 13 : 9781846550874

Editeur : Harvill Secker, 2012

Synopsis

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, brash Bob Richards, meticulous Edwin Hoyt and the eccentric but brilliant Ellen Swallow, the first woman at MIT, who experiments secretly in a basement laboratory. 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvill Secker
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846550874
• ISBN 13: 9781846550874
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496
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• Personne responsable: non disponible