The Wind and the Fire

This meticulously researched novel combines fact, fantasy and adventure in the early 1800s, where men wear top hats and tails, bacteria are interesting novelties called 'animalcules', and a mystical African tribe is found deep in the western Virginia mountains. A notorious criminal, Timothy Blake, is seeking the formula to a machine that just might have the power to cure disease, and possibly lead to eternal youth. Mark Mackenzie, young American doctor and inventor of the machine, finds him...