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Ace Trade
November 0000
On Sale: December 31, 2012
Featuring: Inspector Matthew Langton
320 pages
ISBN: 0425258173
EAN: 9780425258170
Kindle: B0095ZOZ66
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"In an age of zeppelins and gyroplanes, atomics and
horseless carriages, the Transatlantic Span is the
industrial marvel of the nineteenth century. A monumental
feat of engineering, the steel suspension bridge stretches
across the Atlantic from Liverpool to the distant harbor of
New York City, supported by no less than seven hundred
towers. But in the shadows of its massive struts, on the
docks of the River Mersey, lies a faceless corpse...
Inspector Matthew Langton is still seized with grief when he
thinks of Sarah, his late wife. Tortured by nightmares and
afflicted by breathless attacks of despair and terror, he
forces himself to focus on the investigation of the faceless
man. The victim wears the uniform of the Transatlantic Span
Company but bears the tattoos of the Boers--could there be a
Boer conspiracy to assassinate Queen Victoria on the
upcoming inauguration day of the Span? But the truth, as it
begins to emerge, is far more bizarre than a political coup.
As additional victims turn up--all with strange twin burn
marks on their necks--Langton draws a connection between the
dead man beneath the bridge and chilling rumors of the Jar
Boys, soul snatchers who come under cover of night. Most
frightening of all is the mythic and elusive Doktor Glass,
who not only may be behind the illicit trade in souls...but
may hold the key to what happened to the inspector's own
beloved wife on her deathbed.."--
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