The Great Game

Description

When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London, it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer - and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain. Fresh from liberating a strange alien object in Abyssinia - which might just be the mythical Ark of the Covenant - young Lucy Westerna, Holmes' protege, must follow her own path to the truth while, on the other side of the world, a young Harry Houdini must face his greatest feat of escape - death itself. As their paths converge the body count mounts up, the entire world is under threat, and in a foreboding castle in the mountains of Transylvania a mysterious old man weaves a spider's web of secrets and lies. Airship battles, Frankenstein monsters, alien tripods and death-defying acts- The Great Game is a cranked-up steampunk thriller in which nothing is certain - not even death. And furthermore... venture deeper into the Lost Files of the Bookman Histories, as Professor Tidhar explores the "Dynamics of an Asteroid"! File Under-Steampunk End Of Days | Only The Beginning | The Ark | Insane Thrills

Lavie Tidhar is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winningA Man Lies Dreaming, the World Fantasy Award winningOsamaand of the critically-acclaimedThe Violent Century.He has a British Fantasy Award for Best Novella forGorel & The Pot-Bellied God. lavietidhar.wordpress.com twitter.com/LavieTidhar Author hometown- London, UK

"Achieves moments of surprising depth and beauty, with real insights into human history and psychology as well as the immense and varied wealth of writing in the last half of the 19th century. It's a virtuoso performance." - Locus "A clever, superior thriller, inventive and entertaining." - SFX