The Technologists
  • Published: 15 February 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099512769
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $39.99

The Technologists

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21 Feb 2012
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15 Feb 2013
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A heart-stopping thriller set in nineteenth-century Boston - a city threatened by a madman hell-bent on destruction.

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.
  • Published: 15 February 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099512769
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Matthew Pearl

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.

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Praise for The Technologists

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

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

An ingenious, sometimes terrifying, historical thriller

Independent

Vivid…frightening… The Technologists is a marvel

Washington Post

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

Pearl takes an unusual subject for a thriller and seamlessly weaves historical research and his own inventions into a satisfying story

Sunday Times

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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