The Return of the Discontinued Man (Burton & Swinburne #5)
Mark Hodder
4.00 · 10 ratings · Published: 01 Jan 2014
It's 9 p.m. on February 15, 1860, and Charles Babbage, the British Empire's most brilliant scientist, performs an experiment. Within moments, blood red snow falls from the sky and Spring Heeled Jack pops out of thin air in London's Leicester Square. Though utterly disoriented and apparently insane, the strange creature is intent on one thing: hunting Sir Richard Francis Burton!
Spring Heeled Jack isn't alone in his mental confusion. Burton can hardly function; he's experiencing one hallucination after another-visions of parallel realities and future history. Someone, or something, is trying to tell him about…what?
When the revelation comes, it sends Burton and his companions on an expedition even the great explorer could never have imagined-a voyage through time itself into a twisted future where steam technology has made a resurgence and a despotic intelligence rules over the British Empire!
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The 'Burton & Swinburne' series
80 ratings 3.88 ·- The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder Book #1
- The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man by Mark Hodder Book #2
- Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder Book #3
- The Secret of Abdu El-Yezdi by Mark Hodder Book #4
- The Return of the Discontinued Man by Mark Hodder Book #5
- The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats by Mark Hodder Book #6
- Burton & Swinburne: The Mystery of the Empty Bay by Mark Hodder Book #7
- Burton & Swinburne: The Disaster at Dale Dyke by Mark Hodder Book #8
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