About the book: 2020 / Summer 1854. London becomes one of the first modern cities in the world. But, lacking the infrastructure—garbage removal, clean water, sewerage—necessary to support a rapidly growing population, the huge city became an ideal place for the emergence of a terrible disease that all scientists and doctors found themselves beyond control of. As a cholera outbreak begins, the book's protagonists investigate and ultimately solve the most pressing medical mystery of their time..