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The secret of Vesalius, Jordi Llobregat ; translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead

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The secret of Vesalius, Jordi Llobregat ; translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead

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eng

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fiction

Main title

The secret of Vesalius

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Jordi Llobregat ; translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead

Summary

Daniel Amat has left Spain and all that happened there behind him. Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University and an even more advantageous engagement, the arrival of a letter a demand stamped Barcelona comes like a cold hand from behind.He arrives back in that old, labyrinthine and near-mythic city a few days before the great 1888 World Fair, amid dread whispers of murders the injuries reminiscent of an ancient curse, and bearing signs of the genius 16th century anatomist, Vesalius. Daniel is soon pulled into the depths of the crime, and eventually into the tunnels below Barcelona, where his own dark past and the future of science are joined in a terrible venture to bring the secret of Vesalius to life. Gothic and gripping, this historical thriller makes of Barcelona a diabolical character emerging out of the dark into a new electrical age, aflame with spirit, superstition and science

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