Book description
London, 1857 the Lazarus Club. Some of the finest,
most-unconventional minds in Victorian Britain including Charles
Darwin, Charles Babbage and Isambard Kingdom Brunel are members of
this illustrious brotherhood. Their meetings take place behind closed
doors, their discussions are revolutionary and their conclusions
sometimes forbidden
Knowing nothing of this secret society, Dr George Phillips, a young
and ambitious surgeon, is intrigued to encounter Brunel over a
well-used cadaver in the gory pit of his dissection theatre. It soon
becomes apparent that the great engineer has mysterious plans for the
good doctor.
And so Phillips becomes embroiled in the enigmatic machinations of
the Lazarus Club, unaware that in the midst of their unorthodox club,
a black conspiracy lurks. Not only is his own life in jeopardy, but as
the first mutilated body is washed up on the banks of the Thames so
the very foundations of Victorian society are set to be rocked to
their core
Dr Anthony Pollard is a senior academic at Glasgow University,
where he is the director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at
the Archaeological Research Department. He has carried out pioneering
work on battle fields in Zululand and North Africa, and as a Forensic
Archaeologist has worked with police forces throughout Britain.
He has written numerous papers and articles on archaeology and
military history. He was the co-presenter of two series of BBC2 s
Two Men in a Trench. The Minutes of the Lazarus Club is his
first novel.
