[Matthew Hawkwood 02] • Resurrectionist
- Authors
- McGee, James
- Publisher
- Not Avail
- Tags
- hawkwood; matthew (fictitious character) , historical , mystery & detective , adventure , mystery , general , historical fiction , london (england) , fiction
- ISBN
- 9780007212705
- Date
- 2007-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.36 MB
- Lang
- en
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…