Stormflyer: Quantum Embers Volume 1 - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

They invent but innovation is a death sentence.

Fifty years ago, an empire of old blood and older laws won the Great War and dictated the peace: steam engines and airships, nothing more. The law has not bent since. Neither has the penalty.

He is an airship engineer with a title he never asked for, happier with grease on his hands than power in them. Everything he owns is riveted into one experimental craft: electric motors, fixed wings, a machine built to the edge of what his conquerors allow. Perhaps past it.

Then the ship is sabotaged, and whoever wants it grounded is no business rival. Assassins come after dark. Someone is killing the killers before they reach him. The people closest to him know why. None of them will tell him.

A student arrives from the capital to study engineering. She moves like someone trained for violence, not academia. Between questions she watches doorways the way he watches gauges, and her answers never fit.

The trail leads from a powerful banking dynasty to a zealot cult with senators in its pocket. He must expose the conspiracy before it buries him. But the woman at his side answers to someone else, and trusting her may be the most dangerous thing he ever does.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.