Burton & Swinburne return in a new series! The Beast is coming. History will be remade. Since the assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840, a cabal of prominent men-including King George V, HRH Prince Albert, Benjamin Disraeli, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel - has received guidance from the Afterlife. T
(eng) Mark Hodder - Burton & Swinburne 03
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- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 360 KB
- Series
- Burton and Swinburne Adventure 3
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Amherst
- ISBN
- 1616145366
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โฆ Synopsis
It Is 1863, But Not The One It Should Be. Time Has Veered Wildly Off Course, And Now The First Moves Are Being Made That Will Lead To A Devastating World War And The Fall Of The British Empire. Caught In A Tangled Web Of Cause, Effect, And Inevitability, Little Does Burton Realize That The Stakes Are Far Higher Than Even He Suspects. A Final Confrontation Comes In The Mist-shrouded Mountains Of The Moon, In War- Torn Africa Of 1914, And In Green Park, London, Where, In The Year 1840, Burton Must Face The Man Responsible For Altering Time: Spring Heeled Jack! Burton And Swinburne's Third Adventure Is Filled With Eccentric Steam-driven Technology, Grotesque Characters, And Bizarre Events, Completing The Three-volume Story Arc Begun In The Strange Affair Of Spring Heeled Jack And The Curious Case Of The Clockwork Man. From The Trade Paperback Edition.
โฆ Subjects
Electronic books
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