An Imperfect Lens

Twenty-seven-year-old Louis Thuillier, a protege of Louis Pasteur arrives in 1880s Alexandria, Egypt, as part of a French expedition searching for the source of the cholera epidemic raging through the city, and falls in love with Este Malina, the daughter of a respected Jewish doctor, but their growing love is threatened by the epidemic, intrigue, and political unrest. 25,000 first printing.