From the author of The Handmaid's Tale & Alias Grace.
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... The fourth volume of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series on the American Civil War & featuring rebel Nathaniel Starbuck.
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Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves on board the seamen's floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood, where prejudice, ambition and murder
Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart & Will Quartermain find themselves on board the seamen's floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood, where prejudice, ambition & murder seethe beneath a veneer of medical respectability.
On shore, a young woman, a known prostitute, is found drowned in a derelict boatyard.
A man leaps to his death into the Thames, driven mad by poison & fear.
The events are linked
- but how?
Courting danger in the opium dens & brothels of the waterfront, certain that the Blood lies at the heart of the puzzle, Jem & Will embark on a quest to uncover the truth.
In a hunt that takes them from the dissecting tables of a private anatomy school to the squalor of the dock-side mortuary, they find themselves involved in a dark & terrible mystery.
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