Forbidden Machines - Couverture souple

Redmond, K. P.

 
9780960095711: Forbidden Machines

Synopsis

Don’t ask too many questions—dangerous ideas kill.The Industrial Revolution had been stopped dead in its tracks. It’s a time of steam engines and airships and bowler hats—a gritty time of incurable infections, corruption and poverty.Strange things are happening. The National Bureau of Scientific Safety has protected the public from unseemly knowledge for nearly 30 years, ever since the great Cataclysm of 1893, but now weapons of great advancement are appearing from nowhere. A crime wave sweeps the nation.Agent Caleb Stone is a lonely widower and devoted father. He’s also an expert killer. His job is to find and destroy the source of these abhorrent devices. With the help of his brainy friend and a remarkable woman, Caleb uncovers secrets both wondrous and cruel, entering a world which never was.

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