By Paul Crilley
ISBN-10: 1616146893
ISBN-13: 9781616146894
Steampunk event for lovers of Sherlock Holmes and physician WhoAn exchange 1895, a global the place Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace perfected the variation Engine. the place steam and Tesla-powered pcs are in every single place. the place automatons powered via human souls enterprise out into the sprawling London streets. the place the Ministry, a secretive executive employer, seeks to regulate every little thing within the identify of the Queen. it's during this claustrophobic, paranoid urban that seventeen-year previous Sebastian Tweed and his conman father fight to eke out a residing. yet all isn't really good. A murderous, masked gang has moved into London, spreading terror in the course of the felony ranks as they take over the underworld. because the gang carves up an increasing number of of the town, a unmarried identify involves be uttered in worried whispers.Professor Moriarty.When Tweed's father is abducted via Moriarty, he's pressured to staff up with info dealer, Octavia Nightingale, to trace him down. yet he quickly realizes that his father's disappearance is simply a tiny piece of a political conspiracy which can smash the British Empire and plunge the realm right into a bad war.