January 2012
Burton & Swinburne: #3
Africa, 1863.
Sir Richard Francis Burton an explorer, a linguist, a scholar, and the King’s agent or is he a puppet being manipulated by forces he cannot understand?
A race to find the srouce of the nile!
Algernon Charles Swinburne a Famous Young Flame-haired poet, thrill-seeker, and a follower of the Marquis De Sade. For him pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin!
Back to where the adventure began! It is 1863, but not the one it should be. Time has veered wildly off course, and moves are being made that will lead to a devastating world war. Prime Minister Lord Palmerston believes that by possessing the three Eyes of Naga he’ll be able to manipulate events and avoid the war. He already has two of the stones, but he needs Sir Richard Francis Burton to recover the third. For the king’s agent, it’s a chance to return to the Mountains of the Moon to make a second attempt at locating the source of the Nile. But a rival expedition led by John Hanning Speke stands in his way, threatening a confrontation that could ignite the very war that Palmerston is trying to avoid!
Caught in a tangled web of cause, effect, and inevitability, little does Burton realize that the stakes are far higher than even he suspects.
A final confrontation comes in London, where, in the year 1840, Burton must face the man responsible for altering time—Spring Heeled Jack!
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