Frankenstein meets The Shadow of the Wind in a Gothic thriller set in the diabolical city of fin-de-siecle Barcelona Daniel Amat has left Spain & all that happened there behind him Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University & 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 & near-mythic city a few days before the great 1888 World Fair amid dread whispers of murders
- the injuries reminiscent of an ancient curse & bearing signs of the genius 16th century anatomist Vesalius Daniel is soon pulled into the depths of the crime & eventually into the tunnels below Barcelona where his own dark past & the future of science are joined in a terrible venture
- to bring the secret of Vesalius to life Gothic & gripping this historical thriller makes of Barcelona a diabolical character
- emerging out of the dark into a new electrical age aflame with spirit superstition & science Published in eighteen countries Jordi Llobregat's bestselling first novel mixes a passionate setting & cryptic mystery into a genre-crossing phenomenon