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The Technologists (with bonus short story The Professor's Assassin)

By Matthew Pearl

By Matthew Pearl

By Matthew Pearl

By Matthew Pearl

By Matthew Pearl
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By Matthew Pearl
Read by Stephen Hoye

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Nov 27, 2012 | ISBN 9780812978032

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Feb 21, 2012 | ISBN 9780679605072

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Feb 21, 2012 | 1096 Minutes

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    About The Technologists (with bonus short story The Professor’s Assassin)

    “A terrific historical mystery in the fine old Arthur Conan Doyle style . . . Who knew that a mystery formed around the founding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could be so good? . . . There are cliffhanger endings and fortuitous escapes. . . . There are even a couple of very sweet romances.”—The Globe and Mail
     
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER
     
    Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between past and present, tradition and technology. The daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is on a mission to harness science for the benefit of all. But when an unnatural disaster strikes the ships in Boston Harbor, and an equally inexplicable catastrophe devastates the heart of the city, an antiscience backlash casts a pall over MIT and threatens its very survival. So the best and brightest from the Institute’s first graduating class secretly join forces to save innocent lives and track down the truth. Armed with ingenuity and their unique scientific training, gifted war veteran Marcus Mansfield, blueblood Robert Richards, genius Edwin Hoyt, and brilliant freshman Ellen Swallow will match wits with a master criminal bent on the utter destruction of the city.
     
    Don’t miss Matthew Pearl’s short story “The Professor’s Assassin,” featuring characters from The Technologists, in the back of the book.
     
    Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

    About The Technologists (with bonus short story The Professor’s Assassin)

    “A terrific historical mystery in the fine old Arthur Conan Doyle style . . . Who knew that a mystery formed around the founding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could be so good? . . . There are cliffhanger endings and fortuitous escapes. . . . There are even a couple of very sweet romances.”—The Globe and Mail
     
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER
     
    Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between past and present, tradition and technology. The daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is on a mission to harness science for the benefit of all. But when an unnatural disaster strikes the ships in Boston Harbor, and an equally inexplicable catastrophe devastates the heart of the city, an antiscience backlash casts a pall over MIT and threatens its very survival. So the best and brightest from the Institute’s first graduating class secretly join forces to save innocent lives and track down the truth. Armed with ingenuity and their unique scientific training, gifted war veteran Marcus Mansfield, blueblood Robert Richards, genius Edwin Hoyt, and brilliant freshman Ellen Swallow will match wits with a master criminal bent on the utter destruction of the city.
     
    Don’t miss Matthew Pearl’s short story “The Professor’s Assassin,” featuring characters from The Technologists, in the back of the book.
     
    Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

    About The Technologists (with bonus short story The Professor’s Assassin)

    The first class at M.I.T. The last hope for a city in peril.
     
    The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on . . .
     
    THE TECHNOLOGISTS
     
    Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between the past and the present, tradition and technology. On a former marshy wasteland, the daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is rising, its mission to harness science for the benefit of all and to open the doors of opportunity to everyone of merit. But in Boston Harbor a fiery cataclysm throws commerce into chaos, as ships’ instruments spin inexplicably out of control. Soon after, another mysterious catastrophe devastates the heart of the city. Is it sabotage by scientific means or Nature revolting against man’s attempt to control it?
     
    The shocking disasters cast a pall over M.I.T. and provoke assaults from all sides—rival Harvard, labor unions, and a sensationalistic press. With their first graduation and the very survival of their groundbreaking college now in doubt, a band of the Institute’s best and brightest students secretly come together to save innocent lives and track down the truth, armed with ingenuity and their unique scientific training.
     
    Led by “charity scholar” Marcus Mansfield, a quiet Civil War veteran and one-time machinist struggling to find his footing in rarefied Boston society, the group is rounded out by irrepressible Robert Richards, the bluest of Beacon Hill bluebloods; Edwin Hoyt, class genius; and brilliant freshman Ellen Swallow, the Institute’s lone, ostracized female student. Working against their small secret society, from within and without, are the arrayed forces of a stratified culture determined to resist change at all costs and a dark mastermind bent on the utter destruction of the city.
     
    Studded with suspense and soaked in the rich historical atmosphere for which its author is renowned, The Technologists is a dazzling journey into a dangerous world not so very far from our own, as the America we know today begins to shimmer into being.

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    The Last Bookaneer
    The Professor's Assassin (Short Story)
    The Last Dickens
    The Poe Shadow
    See all books by Matthew Pearl

    Also by Matthew Pearl

    The Dante Chamber
    The Last Bookaneer
    The Professor's Assassin (Short Story)
    The Last Dickens
    The Poe Shadow
    See all books by Matthew Pearl

    About Matthew Pearl

    Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, The Technologists, The Last Bookaneer, and The Dante Chamber, and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated… More about Matthew Pearl

    About Matthew Pearl

    Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, The Technologists, The Last Bookaneer, and The Dante Chamber, and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated… More about Matthew Pearl

    About Matthew Pearl

    Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, The Technologists, The Last Bookaneer, and The Dante Chamber, and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated… More about Matthew Pearl

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Nov 27, 2012 | 576 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812978032

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Random House
    Feb 21, 2012 | 576 Pages | ISBN 9780679605072

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Suspense & Thriller | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $24.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Feb 21, 2012 | 1096 Minutes | ISBN 9780739344316
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    “Fascinating, mesmerizing, and richly atmospheric, The Technologists is the best yet from a true master of the historical thriller. I loved this novel.”—Joseph Finder, author of Buried Secrets and Vanished
     
    “A terrific historical mystery in the fine old Arthur Conan Doyle style . . . Who knew that a mystery formed around the founding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could be so good? . . . There are cliffhanger endings and fortuitous escapes. . . . There are even a couple of very sweet romances.”—The Globe and Mail
     
    “The Technologists combines everything I love in a thriller: fascinating history, science, and a frightening mystery that demands to be solved.”—Tess Gerritsen, author of Last to Die
     
    “A marvel of moving parts [with] all the twists and turns a mystery lover could ask for.”—The Washington Post

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