Book 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.
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.
