Tato série vás zavede do alternativní viktoriánské Anglie, kde se mísí magie, technologie a literatura. Sledujte statečného sirotka, který se postaví proti nejnebezpečnějšímu teroristovi v zemi, jehož zbraní jsou knihy. Ponořte se do světa plného spiknutí, pomsty a neuvěřitelných dobrodružství, kde jsou hranice mezi životem a smrtí nebezpečně tenké. Je to epické steampunkové dobrodružství s nádechem temné fantasy.
When his girlfriend is killed in a terrorist attack committed by the sinister Bookman, young poet Orphan becomes involved in a web of secrets and lies. His quest to uncover the truth takes him from the hidden catacombs of a London on the brink of revolution, through pirate-infested seas, to the mysterious island that may hold the secret to the origin not only of the shadowy Bookman, but of Orphan himself
CAN’T FIND A RATIONAL EXPLANATION TO A MYSTERY? CALL IN THE QUIET COUNCIL. The mysterious and glamorous Lady De Winter is one of their most valuable agents. A despicable murder inside a locked and bolted room on the Rue Morgue in Paris is just the start. This whirlwind adventure will take Milady to the highest and lowest parts of that great city – and cause her to question the very nature of reality itself.
Airship battles, Frankenstein monsters, alien tripods and Houdini: The Great Game is a cranked-up steampunk thriller in which nothing is certain - not even death.
Containing all three Bookman History novels: The Bookman Camera Obscura The Great Game File Under: Steampunk [ Alternate History! Diabolical Anarchists! Murder Most Foul The End of Days ]