Description
In the summer of 1849 cholera threatens the city and the people of London. The authorities send millions of gallons of sewage cascading into the Thames – for many Londoners the only source of drinking water. Joshua Jeavons a young and idealistic engineer embarks on an obsessive quest to find the cause of the epidemic. As he labours in a fog of incomprehension his domestic life is troubled by the baffling coldness of his beautiful bride Isobella. But when she suddenly disappears his desperate search for her takes him to a netherworld of slum-dwellers pickpockets and scavengers of subterranean London.
