King of the Cracksmen |
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| Author:
| O'Flaherty, Dennis |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59780-562-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2015 |
| Publisher: | Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Night Shade Books |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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How far will the luck of the Irish stretch? The year is 1877. Automatons and steam-powered dirigible gunships have transformed the nation in the aftermath of the Civil War. All of the United States west of the Mississippi has been sold to Russia by President Andrew Jackson to balance the budget, and the former states are now known as "Little Russia” and ruled by the son of Tsar Alexander II. Lincoln is still president, having never been assassinated, but...
More Description How far will the luck of the Irish stretch?
The year is 1877. Automatons and steam-powered dirigible gunships have transformed the nation in the aftermath of the Civil War. All of the United States west of the Mississippi has been sold to Russia by President Andrew Jackson to balance the budget, and the former states are now known as "Little Russia” and ruled by the son of Tsar Alexander II. Lincoln is still president, having never been assassinated, but is being kept prisoner by his former secretary of war Edwin Stanton, who now heads the Department of Public Safety and rules the U.S. with an iron fist as head of an all-powerful security organization.
Liam McCool is an outlaw, known among other crooks as "King of the Cracksmen.” But his glory days as a safecracker and head of a powerful New York gang are ended by one of Secretary Stanton’s henchmen, who captures him and forces him to work for the DPS against the terrorist Molly Magees. McCool bides his time until he can take his sweetheart Maggie and escape to San Francisco. But when Maggie turns up murdered, McCool realizes that in addition to solving Maggie’s murder, task #1 is to defeat Stanton, and in partnership with world-famed lady reporter Becky Fox, he plunges deep into the underground war against Stanton’s oppression.
The King of the Cracksmen is an explosive, action-packed look at a Victorian empire that never was, part To Catch a Thief, part Little Big Man. It’s steampunk like you’ve never seen it before, a murder mystery in a foreign world where no one is who they seem to be and danger lurks around every corner.