The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Summer 1854. London becomes one of the world’s first modern cities. But without infrastructure—garbage removal, clean water, sewerage—the enormous city, needed to support its rapidly growing population, turned into the perfect place for a terrible disease that even all scientists and doctors were powerless against. As the cholera outbreak begins, the main characters investigate and, in the end, solve the most urgent medical mystery of their time.