The Minutes of the Lazarus Club

The British historical thriller of the year.

Dr Anthony Pollard is a senior academic at Glasgow University, where he is the director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at the Archaeological Research Department. He has carried out pioneering work on battle fields in Zululand and North Africa, and as a Forensic Archaeologist has worked with police forces throughout Britain. 
 
He has written numerous papers and articles on archaeology and military history. He was the co-presenter of two series of BBC2&rsquo;s Two Men in a Trench. The Minutes of the Lazarus Club is his first novel.

London, 1857 &ndash; the Lazarus Club. Some of the finest, most-unconventional minds in Victorian Britain &ndash; including Charles Darwin, Charles Babbage and Isambard Kingdom Brunel &ndash; are members of this illustrious brotherhood. Their meetings take place behind closed doors, their discussions are revolutionary and their conclusions sometimes forbidden&hellip; 
 
Knowing nothing of this secret society, Dr George Phillips, a young and ambitious surgeon, is intrigued to encounter Brunel over a well-used cadaver in the gory pit of his dissection theatre. It soon becomes apparent that the great engineer has mysterious plans for the good doctor. 
 
And so Phillips becomes embroiled in the enigmatic machinations of the Lazarus Club, unaware that in the midst of their unorthodox club, a black conspiracy lurks. Not only is his own life in jeopardy, but as the first mutilated body is washed up on the banks of the Thames so the very foundations of Victorian society are set to be rocked to their core&hellip;

Tony Pollard

London, 1857 
A series of mutilated corpses are pulled from the Thames. Young surgeon Dr George Phillips is first consulted, and then suspected, by baffled police. 
 
The Lazarus Club 
Meanwhile, a secret society meets. This gathering of the finest minds of the age - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin and others - wish to use their discoveries to change the world. . . 
 
Murder and conspiracy 
But there are those who use the club for their own mysterious and black ends. With his reputation and his life on the line, Dr Phillips must unmask the plotters before they unleash on an unsuspecting world an awesome scientific power. . .

Tony Pollard

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