**From the #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author of the This Man series comes a "brave, cutting-edge romance" (_Library Journal_) that begs the question: what would you do if you fell in love with someone you can't have? ** Annie has never experienced the "spark" with a guy -- the kind of insta
The Forbidden
β Scribed by Frank Tallis as F. R. Tallis
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books; Pegasus Crime
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 169 KB
- Edition
- First Pegasus books edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Paris (France), France--Paris.
- ISBN
- 1605985929
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The Alienist meets The Exorcist in Tallis' new novel of psychological suspense, as an ambitious young doctor explores the dangerous border between science and the supernatural.1873: When the ambitious Doctor Paul Clement takes a job on the island of Saint Sebastien, 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...
β¦ Subjects
France -- Paris
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