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The Forbidden

Tallis, Frank. Book - 2014 Mystery 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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"1873: When the ambitious Doctor Paul Clément takes a job on the island of Saint Sébastien, he has dreams of finding cures for tropical diseases. After witnessing the ritualistic murder of a young boy who was allegedly already dead, he is warned never to speak of what he has seen. Back in fin de siecle Paris, Paul's attentions turn to studying the nervous system and resuscitation through electricity. Paul is told of patients who have apparently died, been brought back to life, and, while they lay between life and death, witnessed what they believed to be Heaven itself. Using forbidden knowledge he swore never to use, he attempts to experience what everyone else has seen, but something goes horribly wrong. When Paul returns to the land of the living, can it be possible that he brings something else back with him, an unspeakable evil so powerful it can never be banished?"--Jacket.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Pegasus Crime, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 377 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1605985554
9781605985558

SUBJECTS
Surgeons -- Fiction.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Gothic fiction.
Mystery fiction.