The Great Game
by Lavie Tidhar
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 theglobe, 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 pathsconverge 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. Airshipbattles, 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. File Under: Steampunk [ End Of Days - Only The Beginning - The Ark - Insane Thrills ] e-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-200-2 "From the Paperback edition."