The Technologists

Paperback | 1 February 2012

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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 u clocks, windows, eyeglasses. Nothing in nature can do this: these are manmade disasters. Someone has determined to unleash 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 a working-class machinist, 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. With thousands of lives endangered and in a climate of rising hysteria, these four courageous young people must unite against the forces of darkness to uncover the mastermind before he can stage his greatest outrage.

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"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

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