Fiendish Schemes Audiobook (Free)

In 1986, K. W. Jeter coined the word steampunk, applying it to his initial Victorian-era science fiction alternate-history experience. Finally he has returned with a fresh story of George Dower, kid from the inventor of Infernal Products, who has been in self-imposed exile…accumulating personal debt.

The world Dower left when he went into hiding was significantly simpler compared to the fresh, steam-powered Victorian London; a mad whirl of civilization filled with gadgets and gears in the least expected areas. After about Fiendish Strategies accepting congratulations for his past due father’s grandest invention-a walking, steam-powered lighthouse-Dower is usually enticed by the chance of profit into a web of intrigue with ominously mysterious players who have nefarious programs about which he can only just figure.If he could make his father’s Vox Universalis are it had been intended, his future is assured. But his attempts are confounded by the strange Vicar Stonebrake, who claims him aid, but seems interested in switching sentient whales to Christianity than in helping George. Drugged, caught, and interrogated by guys, ladies, and a steam-powered Prime Minister, Dower is trapped inside a maelstrom of secrets, corruption, and schemes that threaten to drown him in the chaos of the mad ” new world “.“This is the real thing-a mad inventor, curious coins, murky London alleys, and windblown Scottish Isles…. A wild and extravagant story that arises brand-new mysteries with each being successful web page.” -Wayne P. Blaylock on Infernal Products“Jeter is a modern Arthur Conan Doyle…. [Fiendish Strategies] reads [like] a Sherlock Holmes adventure.” -Tee Morris, writer of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series