### Review "**A beautifully crafted novel** whose dark heart is counterbalanced with small moments of unexpected tenderness. And dirigibles." --*Rob Will Review* ### About the Author **George Mann** is the author of *The Affinity Bridge*, *The Osiris Ritual*, *The Human Abstract*, and *The Ghosts
Ghosts of War: A Tale of the Ghost
โ Scribed by George Mann
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books;Pyr
- Year
- 2013;2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 203 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Ghosts of War picks up the story a month after the end of Ghosts of Manhattan. New York City is being plagued by a pack of ferocious brass raptors โ strange, skeleton-like creations with bat-like wings that swoop out of the sky, attacking people and carrying them away into the night. The Ghost has been tracking these bizarre machines, and is close to finding their origin: a deranged military scientist who is slowly rebuilding himself as a machine.
However, this scientist is not working alone, and his scheme involves more than a handful of abductions. He is part of a plot to escalate the cold war with Britain into a full-blown conflict, and he is building a weapon โ a weapon that will fracture dimensional space and allow the monstrous creatures that live on the other side to spill through. He and his co-conspirators โ a cabal of senators and businessmen who seek to benefit from the war โ intend to harness these creatures and use them as a...
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