In an isolated laboratory, a test subject discovers a human corpse with its heart removed...In New York City, a journalist investigates a homicide victim with its face and fingerprints removed...Drawn together by medicine and murder, these two men are abo
From the author of the bestselling Neanderthal comes this novel of gripping suspense and scientific conquest–a page-turning historical mystery that brilliantly explores the intrigue behind Darwin and his theory of evolution.It’s 1831, and aboard HMS B
A brain damaged thirteen-year-old boy lies in a New York hospital bed. At his side, his father waits helplessly as two scientists take charge of the boy's fate. Together, they're sending Tyler far beyond the frontiers of medical science into a dark and te
A keenly intelligent, delightfully mordant novel that blends fact and fiction with the same deft hand that was at work in John Darnton’s best-selling Neanderthal.Bad news is brewing in the inner sanctum of the New York Globe, the city’s long-standing
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and best-selling author: a beautifully crafted memoir of his lifelong chase after his father’s shadow.John was eleven months old when his father, Barney Darnton—a war correspondent for The New York Times—
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The acclaimed New York Times series on social class in America--and its implications for the way we live our lives We Americans have long thought of ourselves as unburdened by class distinctions. We have no hereditary aristocracy or landed gentry, and eve
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