Resurrectionist
Kshs 415.00
Hawkwood, the Regency James Bond, returns in this gripping, action packed sequel to the bestselling `Ratcatcher’. Matthew Hawkwood. Soldier, spy, lover – a man as dangerous as the criminals he hunts.
The tough Bow Street Runner is back where he’s not wanted, in the most forbidding places London has to offer: its graveyards and the rank, sinister halls of Bedlam, the country’s most notorious lunatic asylum. There are missing bodies all around – dead and alive. ‘Resurrection men’ serve the demands of the city’s surgeons by stealing corpses – and creating a few of their own along the way.
Far more worrying is the escape from Bedlam of a very unusual inmate: one Colonel Titus Xavier Hyde, an obsessive, gifted surgeon whose insanity is only matched by his dark intelligence. And this twisted genius has a point to prove. Which will mean plenty more work for the gravediggers…
- Classifications: Historical mysteries
- Readership:General (US: Trade)
- Format: Paperback softback 400 pages
ISBN : 9780007212712
Published : 3 Sep 2007
Author : James McGee
Main Material : Paperback softback
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Size : 197 x 130 x 38 (mm)
Weight : 438g
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