352 pages
English language
Published March 9, 2008 by Faber and Faber, [distributor] TBS The Book Service Ltd, Faber & Faber.
The resurrectionist
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Leaving behind his father's failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrectionists and ruler of its trade in stolen bodies.
Subjects
- Anatomists
- Body snatching
- Fathers and sons