Bøger af Geoffrey Mandragora

Nicola Tesla is on the run, accused of the attempted murder of Thomas Edison. Too many people know too much about Tesla's plans, and have too much access to the Serbian inventor's devices.Michael Cooper-Smythe, is a man of many layers; devoted husband, loving father, retired public servant, and Queen Victoria's private spymaster. Healthy people are dropping dead, and the sudden death of a Russian diplomat instigates a purge of Naval Intelligence threatening to dismantle the empire's clandestine operations. Special contractors and loyal operatives are made redundant or forced to become rogue agents-a suicidal prospect in a world in chaos after a chemical and biological war devastated the continental European empires. To find Tesla, to protect his family and the Empire, Cooper-Smythe finds that he needs agents and allies.It would helpful if he could find someone he could trust.

Jenny Taylor's past, present and future violently collide at four a.m. on a cold November morning. Her abusive ex-husband has found her and vows to make her new life a living hell-starting with a brutal assault in the alley behind her workplace. Two mysterious figures appear and drive him away but they, too, have not found Jenny by chance.Marquessa King and her mentor, Christopher Stefanov, just discovered a terrifying truth about Jenny. A teenaged girl's brutally tortured corpse is dumped beside the highway. She is one of many.An an old enemy begs Christopher to find his granddaughter's killer and Jenny can no longer be protected from the truth. She must choose whether she will help Christopher and Marquessa pursue the sadistic killer, or try to outrun her violent ex. She needs the protection Christopher offers, but pursuing the serial killer holds especially high stakes for Jenny. She not only risks death, but a fate far darker....Becoming Nosferatu.Jenny finds herself wedged between battle lines drawn by creatures who feed on the blood of the living and a creature who feeds on the terror of little girls. She is thrust into a world of murderers and forces more evil than she ever imagined...which she is almost certain not to survive.

January,1889 The Kaiserreich, with their Dutch allies, have claimed victory in the Boer War and control all of South Africa. Fearing loss of sea access through the Cape of Good Hope, the British Royal Navy has pushed forward research into submersible warfare.Under the command of Ian Rollins, the HMS Thunderbolt has been playing a game of cat-and-mouse with the Kriegsmarine off the Cape, but their tense standoff with the Germans turns unexpectedly to a tense alliance after they are ordered to aid in the rescue of a disaster-stricken German Antarctic Expedition. The boat is forced to operate with merely a skeleton crew, and to navigate with experimental equipment beneath the ice. Can they even locate the island before the survivors succumb to the frigid land? Rollins must keep his one good eye on his German guests, on the ice above him, and on the two technical advisers assigned to the mission, one of whom has already proven herself a distraction at the best of times. With no way of knowing for sure who is a friend and who an enemy, can even the famous "Commander Claw" come out on top this time?

"What you will be working on is underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English." 1887The British Empire is in danger of collapse and teeters on the brink of war with the Kaiser Reich. Spies and saboteurs play at deadly games in the British shipyards as each side seeks naval superiority.Ian Rollins is collateral damage in their shadow war. The "accident" and his grievous injuries are about to bring his naval career to an ignominious end. But with the aid of a former Pinkerton detective, a clandestine agent for the Admiralty, a brace of Serbian savants, and one, mostly sober valet, he might survive. If he can master the skills necessary to command the world's first fully operational combat submarine, the HMS Holland Ram, and protect the secrets of the Thunderbolt. Historical Note. The Fenian Ram, fictionalized for this novel, does exist and is currently on display at the Paterson Museum in Paterson, NJ.