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century where the American Civil War has dragged on for two decades due to the discovery of mechanite; a mineral that burns ten times more efficiently than coal. In this world of dirigible battles, steam-powered machines of war and daring espionage, the powers of Europe play a game of shadows in an effort to gain access to America’s miraculous mineral; a prize which could envelop the world in its first great war.

  The first Lazarus Longman novel – Golden Heart – is something of a western crossed with a lost world adventure as Lazarus sets out to discover the Seven Golden Cities of Cibola. Silver Tomb sees Lazarus journey to Egypt for an encounter with the undead reanimated by science. In Onyx City Lazarus scours the slums of Victorian London for Jack the Ripper while dangerous radicals try to overthrow the British Empire.

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  By the same author

  The Lazarus Longman Chronicles

  Through Mines of Deception (novella)

  On Rails of Gold – A Prequel to Golden Heart (novella)

  Golden Heart

  Silver Tomb

  Onyx City

  Celluloid Terrors

  Curse of the Blood Fiends (forthcoming)

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  As Chris Thorndycroft

  The Hengest and Horsa Trilogy

  A Brother’s Oath

  A Warlord’s Bargain

  A King’s Legacy

  The Rebel and the Runaway

  Novellas

  The Visitor at Anningley Hall – A prequel to M. R. James’s ‘The Mezzotint’

  Old Town

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