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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Boston is being terrorised by a series of mysterious attacks. The city's fate relies on four young students: The TECHNOLOGISTS. Amid rising hysteria, they must unite against the forces of darkness to uncover the mastermind behind the attacks, before he can stage his greatest outrage. The bestselling author of THE DANTE CLUB returns with a heart-stopping thriller set in the 19th century. Zusammenfassung 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.
