Soft cover, 337 pages
At the dawn of the Enlightenment, a man is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of Georgian society to become a successful surgeon. Yet as human being he fails, for he can no more feel love and compassion than pain. Until, en route to St Pietersburg to inoculate the Empress Catherine, he meets his nemesis and saviour.
