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Night Shade Books
February 2015
On Sale: January 27, 2015
Featuring: Liam McCool
ISBN: 1597805513
EAN: 9781597805513
Kindle: B00OY5QS8A
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Fantasy Steampunk
How far will the luck of the Irish stretch? The year is 1877. Automatons and steam-powered dirigible gunships have transformed the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War. All of the countryβs land west of the Mississippi was sold to Russia nearly fifty years earlier, and βLittle Russia,β as itβs now called, is ruled by the son of Tsar Alexander II. Lincoln is still president, having never been assassinated, but heβs not been seen for six months, and rumors are flying about his disappearance. The country is being run as a police state by his former secretary of war Edwin Stanton, a power-hungry criminal who rules with an iron fist. Liam McCool is an outlaw, known among other crooks as βKing of the Cracksmen.β But his glory days as a safecracker and the head of a powerful New York gang end when heβs caught red-handed. Threatened with prison unless he informs on his own brethren fighting a guerilla war against Stantonβs tyranny, McCoolβs been biding his time, trying to keeping the heat off him long enough to escape to San Francisco with his sweetheart Maggie. But when she turns up murdered, McCool discovers a trail of breadcrumbs that look to lead all the way up to the top of Stantonβs criminal organization. Joining forces with world-famed lady reporter Becky Fox, he plunges deep into the underground war, racing to find Maggieβs killer and stop Stanton once and for all. 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, steampunk as youβve never seen it before.
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