Technologists

Technologists

by Matthew Pearl (Author)

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 21 Feb 2012

ISBN 10: 1846550874
ISBN 13: 9781846550874
Book Overview: A heart-stopping thriller set in nineteenth century Boston - a city threatened by a madman determined to unleash the destructive potential of science on an innocent population.

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 The best yet from a true master of the historical thriller. I loved this novel Joseph Finder, author of Buried Secrets and Vanished
Author Bio
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.