[Matthew Hawkwood 02] • Resurrectionist

[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
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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…