Young surgeon Dr George Phillips is invited to meet Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin and Joseph Bazalgette at an undisclosed location in London, 1857. A meeting of the greatest minds of the age. There the Lazarus Club meets to discuss ideas so unorthodox they cannot be voiced in public, so advanced they will change the course of history. A brotherhood of questionable morality. Meanwhile, mutilated bodies washed up from the murky Thames lead police to Dr Phillips' door: can he help solve some brutal murders? A dark and twisted conspiracy. Soon Dr Phillips realises that the Lazarus Club is being used by a member for some evil purpose. Can he discover who in time to prevent an extraordinary invention falling into the wrong hands?